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Last week the Mendès-France government announced that Baylot had resigned from his job and would be given a "high diplomatic post." This done, the Mendès-France government, on its own, banned the Communist Bastille Day parade. Though he was being kicked upstairs, Baylot was not disturbed. Said he: "We have broken the back of the Communist Party here. They would not dare stage a big demonstration now." His parting gift last week came, ironically, from the Communists: not only did L'Humanité lose its suit against him, but it was ordered to pay Baylot 300,000 francs ($857) for "the offensive character of its unfounded assertions."