FRANCE: Sorcerer's Apprentice
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Hope for a Compromise. All of the unions were trying to force a reconvening of the National Assembly—the Socialists and Catholics in real hope of a solution, or at least a graceful pretext for going back to work, the Communists in hope of a brawl that would worsen the nation's plight. Laniel was conferring with the Force Ouvrière and Catholic leaders, but not with the Reds.
The Communists were determined to get the maximum benefit to themselves—that is, the maximum damage to France —out of the trouble that others had started. At week's end they were calling out industrial workers in the Marseille area and planning parades for this week (probably with violence) in celebration of the ninth anniversary of France's liberation from the Germans.
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