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Insistent Drum. Frenchmen can read more than history in Holy Week. They can read of a France beset far more sorely than she is today-bled white and depopulated by Napoleon's wars, split by divided loyalties and false dreams-and find consolation for today's troubles in the knowledge that within two generations, France was to rise again to lead the Continent. In one of the disconcerting asides to the reader with which he interrupts his narrative, Aragon writes: "Perhaps this book falsely, only apparently, turned toward the past, is only a great quest of the future...
...fascinated all historians-of reason beside unreason, of rationalism beside blind faith-was never more sharply apparent than in the century (1558-1648) from Elizabeth to Richelieu and from Shakespeare to Descartes. It was a time when superstition was rampant; a king's touch would cure scrofula, corpses bled in the presence of the murderer, comets signified disaster-although Galileo was calmly regarding the heavens through a telescope that magnified 1,000 times. Witchcraft (in which Kepler believed) was widespread: the Archbishop of Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans on the ground that they...
...issue was one that France had been half avoiding for years, and it involved nothing less than the end of empire. The soldiers who forced the battle had bled and lost in Indo-China. had evacuated Tunisia and Morocco, blaming it all on the "politicians." They had toppled the Fourth Republic in May 1958 to install De Gaulle-who was now telling them only three years later that they had to give up Algeria, the last and bloodiest possession of all. But the soldiers, in their bitter years abroad, had lost all touch with the new sentiments of Metropolitan France...
...proud history, the U.S. Army has suffered no more galling defeats than it did on the nation's peacetime rocket ranges after World War II. With a group of ex-Nazi rocketmen as its nucleus (Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus), the Army bled its budget to set up in the missile business-and, in fact, saved the nation's face by launching the first U.S. satellite after Sputnik. But the Defense Department ruled that long-range rocketing was properly the role for the Air Force, and the Army's Redstone Arsenal was turned over to the National...
Presidential Promises. Magalhaes is determined to correct the federal government's neglect of the state. "We have reached the utmost limits of human distress," Magalhaes says bitterly. The Sao Paulo newspaper 0 Estado agrees with him: "The nation has bled Bahia...