The magazine came out firing in its first issue, charging that certain political groups, with vested financial interests in Indochina, were “conspiring” to keep the war going. Featured on the cover was Pierre Mendès France of the Radical Party, who declared on page six, in an interview titled “France Can Bear the Truth”: “We cannot approach problems of economic recovery without resolving the problem of unproductive costs like rearmament and the Indochina War.”
