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Three Times in 70 Years. Hunched, acerbic ex-Premier Edouard Daladier rose from the benches of the moderate Radical Party. "If Germany prefers the European Army," he cried, "it is because she has the certainty of establishing her hegemony over Mitteleuropa, reconstituted by our efforts . . . The Russian soldier has never set boot on French soil since the duel which opposed Czar Alexander to the Emperor Napoleon. The German soldier has invaded it three times in 70 years." This line so pleased the Communists in the Assembly that, for the time being at least, they stopped calling Daladier...
...filling station operated by French Premier Joseph Laniel and ordering $385 million worth of French blood. (The U.S. recently decided to increase dollar aid to France that amount to carry on the Indo-China war.) In the National Assembly, during a crucial debate on Indo-China policy, ex-Premier Edouard Daladier echoed L'Humanite's blood & dollars theme. After tolling off the well-known drainages (76,000 casualties and $5 billion) and frustrations of France's seven-year war against Communism in Asia, Daladier said: "One of the parties brings dollars, while the other makes a gift...
...least as much harm as good. The No. 1 obstacle to EDC is French fear of German arms; the more eager the Germans are to have them, the less willing are the French to let them have them. "Chancellor Adenauer is a man of high conscience," said Edouard Herriot, President of the French National Assembly, in a bitter speech last week. "But he is there for four years, and the treaty we are asked to sign is for 50 years." A German countered: "We are asked to solve the most difficult and intricate problem in history -namely, to raise...
...Edouard Herriot, president of the Assembly, was moved to sound a national warning: "We are running the risk of having the world consider that we cannot conduct our own affairs." A campaign, daily increasing in intensity, was rising against the French parliamentary regime, he said. "The present situation cannot continue without terrible risks. Do not rely on this appearance of calm in the country, on this apathy which is the sign of its anxiety, and, I might even say, of its discouragement . . . The country is very unhappy ... I do not recall having known a moment of such terrible anguish...
...Author Edouard Stackpole, who comes from an old Nantucket clan himself, tells the story of the Essex with a plenitude of details and a sober chronicler's lack of shock. Few whaling men had as tragic a time as the men of the Essex, but whaling, as Author Stackpole describes it in The Sea-Himters, was characteristically a dangerous, grim and dirty business. Stack-pole's book is a serious attempt to set down the round story of how it all started, and how for a few generations it made Nantucket rich and famous...