In the two years that André Stil, 31, a onetime schoolteacher, has been editing France's top Communist daily L'Humanité, he has proved his qualifications for the job. This year he won a Stalin Prize for the first volume of his novel Le Premier Choc (The First Blow), glorifying French stevedores who end up sabotaging U.S. military shipments to France under the Atlantic Pact. Last week Editor Stil was doing even better work for the party. On the eve of General Ridgway's arrival in Paris to take over NATO's command, he proclaimed mass demonstrations...
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