COMMENTS ON PARISIAN ATTITUDES AND VIEWPOINTS-MENTIONS THE ROSENBERG'S EXECUTIO

Created: 8/19/1953

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lastold you that weequsstaisesalaries from our working personnel, with strike threats,collective bargaining Between the unions andot resulted yet In any decision, ae had to giveraise or five per cent to everybody. Including1 Hay. On lop of that, we gave five thousandevery workmanvacation bonus' in order to kocpaoralc in good eond.ltIon. Fromnderstand, many are doing the same thing, nlthough thiscannot bo taken Into account in our 'Escalator sales, villh our customers. We sincerely felt thises tho cost or living Inoared toheights.

"The people's mood is rather exultant anyhow, as everyone is' living on vacation dreess. Whenone back hexno in Septem-her, broke, ?nd with that particular let-dounhisuess the more or less Justifiedill start

"As you know. Franco at lasto/er/iTjnt. For acuereason to most cocaon people, one day all problems were solved, anderfectly xtnknonn nan caae as Prcnlcr. liven not, you canot of French people who heeds the French government snd lhay will scratch their heads end cay,doa't knowuess it hss ehsnsed.' The Isak of interest of the Prcnch people In anything concerning political natters la eharacter'a'.l- of our tines here,an ass-are

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w/ut% excited than anything concerning Important decisions by an vnknchn govarn'ont on Franco's future.

ulyvery lnpresslvoaraded In th* Cowinlat section of Paris, around La Bastille,ang of north Africans, causing an unruly dtiftnati-atlon which crtdodewounded on both atdoa. TlienVe lo lha lack of In- -terest cf Ficnch people, the whole matter died downew fieya end It seena already forgotten MstOiy. *

"PoaCa In Korea has brought hardly any covw.ents from tho people. The only reactionavo been able to detect WBB,'l[fiy don't vo Vrench succeedettling our etx-year war In IndochtnaV Vo orc.ftolnx to continueuroney nil go ah? ad bodingoney.1

'The Rosenbari'B execution caused quite an uproar here. a not only fro* tha Ccv^unlata, but froa everywhere. an onlythat ao-iehoa ths US official point orwas ctsu-tccratood with the resultad friends of ralne calling me over th* phone to eapi-esa their Indignation, rho fact stillM taatfeopla who raverorfl oror foviet rasa eaecatlo'n witbjut *i/ trial,(ttpXf and iJucr^alyy IVj

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