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    "ocrText": "CONTIDENTIA\n1947 Communists participated in the government and held important cabinet\npositions. During this period Communists and fellow travelers gained\naccess to strategic positions in the civil service, the trade union move-\nment and the armed forces. In recent years, however, party members and\nfellow travelers have been removed from positions of influence and au-\nthority in public life and there are today no Communists in important\ngovernment positions. In spite of the development of non-Communist labor\norganizations, the Communists control over the CGT, the largest single\nunion, continues to give them a relatively dominant position in the field\nof organized labor. Although the hard core of Communist militants has not\nbeen radically affected, the Communist offensive in France has been blocked.\nThe government's security measures have been reinforced and it is very\nunlikely that the Communists could seize control by overt action.\nIn the early post war years French politics reflected the idealistic\nand reformist atmosphere of the Resistance movement. After the exclusion\nof the Communists from the cabinet, the economic and social program of the\ngovernment was still dominated by leftist and socialist economic thought.\nParadoxically, however, in view of the make-up of the National Assembly,\nthe economic and social policies of the French Government evolved so that\nthey are essentially conservative and reflect the views of the center and\nthe right.\nSince May 1947, the balance of power among the parties in the Assembly\nhas been such that it has generally been impossible to get support for a\ncabinet which does not include the Socialist Party on the left and some\nelements of the traditionalist and conservative parties on the right. This\nCONF IDENTIAL\nVII"
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