Sober French trade union leaders and the property-hugging French proletariat were at their wits' end last week as obstreperous Communists and wharf scum at the naval ports of Brest and Toulon staged a bloody dress-rehearsal of revolution.
In Brest bold Sub-Prefect Jacques Henry risked lynching by Red mobsters who had torn down the tricolor of France from his Sub-Prefecture and hoisted a Communist banner, to the vast delight of Moscow (see p. 24). While rioters surged around him singing the Internationale, M. Henry grabbed the lanyards and began hauling down the Red flag...
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