God bless the French Bishops

http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10727
A review in America of Marini I's book, by Bishop Trautman.
I was very disappointed when his book tour was canceled, I had time and access to attend one of his appearances.
I still intend to read the book.
Although I am troubled by what one (certainly not unbiased,) blogger reports, that it hasn't been released in Italian yet, thereby providing evidence that it was indeed ghost written by the English language "editors" or "translators."
I am not of one mind with many if not most people with a serious interest in liturgy, (or do I mean "most people with an interest in serious liturgy"?,) who regard Bsp. Trautman as the enemy.
While he is absurdly wrong-headed in many ways, we have much to be thankful to him for, IMO.
But I wonder at his jumping on the band-wagon of the reform being seen as a conflict between the Curia and the rest of the Church, with the former wholly opposed to reform, and the latter the brave little under-dogs who ultimately prevail.
And the review treats the reform as something that began in the '60s -- does the book make this error? and not see that any appropriate restoration of the liturgy had to be in continuity with the reforms that preceded it, at last back to the turn of the preceding century?
This phrase -- "the Congregation for Rites was still firmly anchored to a limited tradition" -- strikes me as very silly indeed. Of course they believed in a "limited tradition," the phrase is redundant, an "unlimited tradition" would be oxymoronic.A tradition inherently is pre-existing, tradition can only be what already is or has been, and is therefore "limited."
And what are we to make of this : When the Curia attempted to limit the liturgical reform, there was decisive and strong reaction from episcopal conferences and national liturgical commissions, especially from the French. Analyzing this, Marini writes: “Even during this initial phase of reform, the liturgy was no longer an exclusive preserve of the Roman Curia but belonged to the Church.”
Does Marini, does Trautman really want to hold up the French bishops as heroes against the hide-bound Curia? the FRENCH bishops? who strategy, whose plans, whose vision was so very successful?
It's like trying to convince someone of the virtues of vegetarianism by reminding them that Hitler was a vegetarian.....
(Is Bsp. Trautman still chairman of the BCL as this review credits? Did I hallucinate that Seratelli [sp?] was elected? ... in November maybe?)