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...budget), was as divided as its arms-which both sides are using against each other. Disregarding U.S. pleas that the dispute should be settled between themselves, Bourguiba demanded an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, where Tunisia accused France of "premeditated aggression." France's U.N. Ambassador Armand Bérard retorted that the Tunisian events were "tragic and regrettable," but that "a minor pretext was used by the government of Tunisia-some minor work, involving two or three meters of terrain to facilitate the landing of planes...
RENDEZVOUS AT BRUGES (319 pp.)-Armand Lanoux-Putnam...
Unfortunately, there is less to The Grand Maneuver than meets the eye. The plot is about what one would expect of an Italian opera buffa, and, despite the brevity of the film, one's interest in the story often wanes. The hero, Armand, is a philandering young dragoon in the French army who would undoubtedly swagger if Gerard Philippe had put a little more spirit into the role. Armand wagers that he can, before the company goes on maneuvers, "win the favors of" some young mademoiselle, who has yet to be selected. At the provincial Red Cross ball Armand decides...
...week as he presented the report of a 16-man government committee appointed last year to find out what is hampering France's efforts to expand. The committee, guided by Rueff, architect of the successful franc devaluation in 1958 and a fervent apostle of free enterprise, and Louis Armand, postwar boss of the French nationalized railroads and later first president of Euratom, found that plenty ails French business-much of it a legacy of protectionism and special privilege from the past. The Rueff-Armand report called for a sweeping liberalization and restoration of free enterprise in French economic life...
...week's end Premier Debré scheduled the first ministerial committee session to debate the report and draw up parliamentary bills. No French official believes the Rueff-Armand recommendations have any chance of complete adoption, but even piece by piece their gradual enactment would signal a far-reaching stride toward a freer, more productive French economy...