Sanity Rewarded.

On December 13, 1951 a laconic announcement in Le Monde newspaper said that the shareholder's of the paper had decided by a vote of 190 to 65 to retain Hubert Beuve-Méry as editor. For the past three years Beuve-Méry has been the most controversial figure in French journalism, arousing greater devotion and hatred than almost any other man. Since the Korean war, when Beuve-Méry realized the immense dangers of MacArthurism and certain other American trends, Le Monde has been the target of particularly violent attacks by the French government, rival newspapers, and Washington.