| Show French Economy Leans i Left in Postwar Era By Jean Bickmore A straw in the wind of the future France For France has become a test-tube for the most insistent political and economic philosophies of H You may lay the blame or the praise for French radicalism at the doors of a spirit a new Jacobinism that has emerged out of a H decade of French political and economic The years gave it a form and ML gave it a chance to strength- m en its so that to- g day we find France well m along the road to a planned complete with The straw has been boldly pushed out into the Arouse American Interest It is hard to describe in a few graphs' the social and economic changes for the France of the But it 15 safe to say that they are changes that strike fear into the of the American conservative and arouse a great deal of interest advocates of a planned France is a concrete example of the leanings of liberated a Europe ready to try something new in the hope 0 getting something That is why ye call France a straw in the Economy in Three Divisions the French plan to have an economy with three The first will nationalized industries public heavy communications anil possibly transportation and Certain important industries outside- this class will fall in a second class to be privately owned but under rigid governmental The third class will remain free of state businessmen have remarked that peanut vendors are about all that be left over for the third There undoubtedly is some opposition to this program from some But the fact that the major political parties see France's economic structure along lines of nationalization and are willing to permit radical changes to be made indicates that the new program will get a fair test in |
