Letter from Paris

June 22, 1968 P. 60

June 22, 1968 P. 60

The New Yorker, June 22, 1968 P. 60

LETTER FROM PARIS about the student riots, strikes, and the political implications. A sharp, authoritarian, brief front-page editorial on the students appeared in Le Monde this Wednesday, signed by the paper's editor, Hubert Beuve-Mery, under his own name, apparently to show that he was speaking as an outraged private citizen. Titled "Oui ou Non," it said, in part. "Is the renovation of our educational system to take place as a form of street fighting? Yes or no; Can a government, no matter what kind, let a Paris neighborhood be filled with barricades? If these occupation of the Odeon and Sorbonne continue, and if these riot multiply, will they not eventually lead to a kind of tribal warfare that, as everyone has every right to fear, could provoke extreme reactionary violence? ...

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