G.I.s were known to be selling Army gasoline in the French black market (TIME, Oct. 2). But even before MPs cracked down, the quantities were not enough to fuel more than a small share of the flagrant boom in pleasure driving. As more & more civilian cars appeared around Paris nightclubs, the scandal-perceptive French began to smell something.
Last week the scandal broke. After seething for days, Paris newspapers lashed out bitterly at short-memoried French playboys, barging about the capital in fancy cars. More in the know, the U.S. Army spoke more sternly: it announced the assignment of a large...
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