BROADWAY AND MAIN SIM£J
Case of Champagne vs. Coke:
Fifty Million Frenchmen Wrong
-By BILLY ROSE -
No French champagne is being sold at my night club in New
York and patrons who request same will have to settle for domestic
fizzwater—which is a lot easier on the pocketbook.
What gives?
The French Communists and Coca-Cola—that’s what gives.
As you probably know, the French national assembly recently passed
a bill which, without naming the product, would prohibit the bottling and
sale of Coca-Cola in France and its colonies.
iwo pressure groups, were respon
sible for this measure—the wine
interests which feared that the soft
drink might cut into their profits,
and the Communists, who, though
they have no love for the vintners,
saw an opportunity to take a rabbit
punch at the United States.
Suiting invective to word, the
Commie paper, L’Humanite, un
leased a campaign against the
“coca-colonization” of the country,
loud- mouthing
that the basic
syrup is highly
toxic and would
turn La Belle
France into a na
tion of "coca-hol
ics.” At the same
time, the right
wing press, front
ing for the fizz
merchants, began
to blab along the
same lines, and even the usually
sensible Le Monde warned that “the
moral landscape of France is at
stake.”
Before I go any further, let me
get it into the record that I’m not
a big Coke drinker and never
owned a share of stock in the com
pany. As far as I’m concerned, the
beverage is just another American
product like Orange Crush, 7-Up
or Dr. Brown’s Celery Tonic.
By initiating an anti-coke cam
paign, they have given Stalins
stooges a made-to-order excuse
for yelping, "Doun with Ameri
can imperialism'’ — the same
sleazy slogan used by Commies
everywhere to divert attention
from the accomplishments of the
Marshall plan.
Billy Bose
As for the argument that the dis
tribution of Coca-Cola would create
unemployment and cut into prof
its—that, too, is a lot of bottletops.
The set-up of the Coca-Cola Export
corporation is such that the entire
manufacture and sale would be
carried out by French personnel,
on French territory, and under
French supervision and ownership.
Or to put it another way, it would
be the beginning of a ne\V French
industry, and potentially a pretty
big one, judging from the fact that
more than 100.000 Americans de
rive part or all of their incomes
from the parent company and its
subsidiaries.
From where I cogitate, it boils !
down to this: John Q. Frenchman
is being denied a choice between
Leftists, aided and abetted by the
bird-brain Righties, don’t like the !
Coke and vino only because the j
country Coca-Cola comes from.
Well, Messieurs et Mesdames,
two can play at boycott as well
as one, and so, no French cham
pagne will be sold in my night
club until the idiotic ban against
our home product is lifted.
Moreover, I’m hereby appealing
to hotels, restaurants and night
club proprietors all over the coun
try to follow suit—and to wire or i
write me when they do. And if ;
they’d like to explain the boycott ;
to their customers, they’re at lib- !
erty to run off reprints of this col- j
umn—of course crediting this paper.
And remember. Messieurs et Mes- 1
dames, if that doesn’t work we can !
get really tough and stop buying
your French postcards.
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