FRANCE: Automatons?
Ruefully, slyly Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe of Paris admitted last week that his gendarmes have made a botch of their attempt to enforce in the French capital an elaborate code of motor traffic regulations copied from Berlin.
"Our people, because of their difference in psychology," he shrugged, "cannot be persuaded, it seems, to adopt the rigid automatism of German traffic methods."
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