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This article focuses on two mass spectacles performed in Paris stadiums in 1937, one Catholic and the other Communist, both of which sought to picture the ideal city with the working people at centre stage. By studying these productions in the light of recent research on fascist theatre and politics, and with reference to the debate on 'modernity' in interwar France, the article explores the French use of theatre in responding to the aesthetic, political and social challenge of representing the masses. The parallels between these two little-known productions can also be used to illuminate a wider rivalry to orchestrate the masses and to portray them as a united national community.

It is asserted that a group's moral center of gravity must be defeated in order to truly conquer that group. After differentiating between a group's operational & moral centers of gravity, it is argued that the Allied forces in WWI defeated Germany's operational center of gravity but failed to destroy its moral center. Similarly, it is contended that the US-led coalition that invaded Iraq in the First Gulf War defeated the Republican Guard but was unsuccessful in removing the nation's moral center (ie, Saddam Hussein). Guidelines for determining a group's moral center are subsequently provided, illustrating that a particular leader, ruling elite, or the general population can function as moral centers of gravity. Analysis of the US Civil War revealed that Abraham Lincoln was indeed the Union's moral center but that the Southern aristocracy & general population, not leader Jefferson Davis, were the moral centers for the Confederacy. It is suggested that national intelligence agencies should identify a target group's moral center before initiating military actions. J. W. Parker