Students, Workers and the General.

This can, obviously, be only a preliminary report on those three or rather, four weeks that shook not only France but the whole of Europe, and after which nothing will ever be the same again. The financial and economic consequences are at the moment totally unpredictable, except for the now general conviction that, after the steep rise in wages following the de facto general strike, which at the peak involved as many as 10 million wage earners. France's competitive power within the European Common Market has been thrown out of gear. Only a few weeks ago, the prestige of the French franc was such that unlimited sums could be taken out of the country, and when a panic seized the bourgeoisie, hundreds dashed in their cars to Switzerland, with trunks filled with 500-franc banknotes.