European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                M War show in Paris reds find the pause that refreshes is undiluted Poison by Howard Katzander staff writer a Little drink made Down South is waging a Lone fight on our Side in the cold with Bovez cola As their the legions of James Farley have already met the Teneni Yov on his own ground in the hallowed Cham Bers of the palais Bour Bonind him in Irv St Civ of Tilc the enemy Between and West is the communist party Maurice which is campaigning against what it the Tion of and the French association of Vineyard owners and wine Dis who fear that the sexy Little bottle with the pinched in Waist May succeed the liter flask of Ordi Naire in the affections of the French common rumblings on the horizon were first heard several months ago when an unidentified French lawmaker Rose in the National Assembly and called Atten Tion to the sudden increase of signs around Paris inviting All and sundry to Bovez coca cola Bien he want complaining about coca cola chances Are he didst even know what it was what got him in a dither waste disgraceful corruption of the French should be Bovez coca cola if it had to be Way in a communist Deputy pricked his went on to and launched the opening Salvo with a Bill which would manufacture or Sale of coca cola in prohibition on the Sod pop Levek enter big Jim former Post now chairman of the Board of the coca cola Export spearhead of this new attempt by Yankee imperialism to subjugate the Down trod Den Peoples of said this might be the Straw to break the Back of the hauling Bil american dollars to he called on the memory of general Lafay he would think this Deci Sion was Small Reward for Genera mar plan and for president Truman plea in Point i for american business to expand in France and elsewhere he added that if congressmen were As nationalistic As the French they would immediately bar French wines As seductive to american he called the whole business a strange Alliance Between the wine growers and the he feared the influence of this american beverage As an ambassador of Good then be wound up with a Pun Volent Uncle Sam May think this is one Straw too in a bottle of re Farley statement and the debate on the Bill pushed news of the a bomb off ones to a position among the petites in nonce in the Back of the paper the big Paris weekly devoted fou Page spread to the history of describing a sidelong glance at Fuchs a better kept Tia ii that of the atom a group of Post world War ii expatriates living on the right joined forces with some left Bank i Bill of rights Art students and other americans to plan the establish ment of a co easy in Case the prohibition went into National Assembly was understandably a bit uncomfortable about the whole it following All the rules passes for parliamentary the palais to debate the Bill and Amend it in order to place the whole Burden for action in the 6f the minister of v ended the first bit communists were far from they Corinti iacued their in the with such car figure labelled Given a transfusion from a bottle then somebody gave a bottle of coca cola to a policeman who turned it Over to the police Laboratory for analysis manager in was haled before examining judge Hubert de and told that coca cola gains phosphoric in violation of a 1905 ordinance which forbids the Sale of pharmaceutical products unless the con tents Are plainly described on the not considering itself a pharmaceutical does Back in company officials admitted that the secret of coca cola is perhaps better guarded than was the secret of the atom they said that in All its Only seven people have known the ingredients Are no they Are sterilized granulated coca cola the company also admits that coca cola in addition to phosphoric i some citric Caramel and caffeine but they dont say How of goes into and thatis where the secret Only two men now know the and the company even Tell who they if both should suddenly a single Handwritten copy of the formula reposes in the faults of an unnamed aside from its political Torbich Are obviously quite War is More than a Imig Teapole cokes were France before the never great Quantity the beverage in most european Norway the signs say Drik i seems catching on in Italy but in where it sell for 48 francs Little More than at least until controversy gave it considerable priceless were americans and other Eigners in the Young Yazoo which likes to ape the and some upper crust hostesses who regard As having snob i actually in All of Sells Only about 800 to cases a hardly Competition for a goo sized snack bar in the unless the Coin Monist publicity Campaign puts it it Doest seem Likely that the pause that refreshes will Ever take the place of the aperitif cd of to the stars and stripes feature Section