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he called Readers Digest
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"a pocketsize stupifier,
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a drug for little minds,"
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and he attacked, was one of the earliest to attack Franglais--
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and more about that in awhile-- that is,
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the absorption of American terms into the French language;
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toothpaste, for example,
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instead of dentifrice,
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flooding the French language.
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But, again, you have to put this in the context of the times,
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and that's what I guess what historians try to do.
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Sixty percent of the people in the Communist Party thought the U.S.