Parisians have been somewhat put out by the somewhat uninhibited conduct of U.S. troops in their city. But the press discreetly refrained from commentuntil last week, when the Canard Enchaine tossed a satiric whizbang:
"We have been able to note . . . that the French have pushed their cruelty to the point of constructing rectilinear sidewalks just so the unfortunate American soldiers who have drunk a dozen innocent white wine-brandies can't follow them.
"What is more, at 3 o'clock in the morning Parisians go home just in order to force the unfortunate G.I.s...
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