THE 'FRENCH COMMUNISTS
SIR,—May I intrude,on your space once more, just to vindicate myse from the charge that I think myself " entitled to give suggestions to tt French Government " ? In my previous letter I only stated my opinic that the new Moch election law, the arrests of resistants, the freeing collaborators, &c., were acts of bad faith, and that the Atlantic Pact az the war in Vietnam vfere not particularly beneficial to the French peop' Why say that the Communist Party "pretended to be a French party Who could be more French than the Conimunist Party leadership.
the scientists like the late Paul Langevin, and idiot Curie, painters such as Fougeron, and poets like Aragon and Eluard who belong to that party and represent the best French culture of today ?
Possibly R.M.Z. would suggest that the revolution of 1789 was organised from abroad, and that the Paris Commune was tea by foreign stooges. The revolutionary tradition is strong in French blood, and it is unnecessary to look for " the hand of Moscow" in the Communist Party offices. The myth that the French Communist Party receives funds from abroad to run its newspapers was exploded by detailed evidence given by Jacques Dudos in the Chamber on November 20th, 1948. May I refer any of your readers who have doubts about this to that speech ?—I am, Sir,
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