Quietly, as though there had been no long and terrible interruption, France began her first free election campaign in five years. At stake in the balloting between April 25 and June 3 will be only municipal and departmental offices. National elections will come later. Women will vote for the first time in French history, and they will probably be a majority, since over 2,000,000 Frenchmen are still prisoners in Germany. But to France it was a proud achievement that she should be the first liberated nation to put her trust in the people's vote.
The Communists got away first. They...