The New Fascist International.

Pierre Laval himself would be back in French politics instead of in his grave if only he had remembered that Spain's Christian general wouldn't hesitate to betray his own mother for a price. Just the other day Pierre-Etienne Flandin, making a triumphal reappearance at a dinner of the Alliance Democratique, not only put in a claim for leadership in French politics but impudently, savagely ripped into the Fourth Republic. The main speaker of the evening was Louis Rougier, who spent some time in America during the war working against the Free French and only recently returned to Paris after a sojourn in Switzerland, where he went in the interests of his political health. Like Flandin, Rougier believes in the old French army slogan-conveniently forgotten when the Nazis rolled in- that the best defense is an offensive.