Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about being the torchbearers of civilization ... who keep their hearts in France and their fortunes abroad . . . who say they love purity of line but cherish an affection for the Eiffel Tower . . . who loathe crossing a frontier without smuggling something just to be doing it but dislike not being legally en règle . . . and finally, who are delighted when one of their great men talks to them of their greatness, their great civilizing mission ... but who dream of nothing except to retire, after a pleasant little life, to a quiet little corner . . . with a little wife who will be satisfied...
Chou was merely inviting the Chinese Nationalist government to surrender without a fight. Yet Washington decided to put the best face on Chou's remarks. Said Dulles at his news conference: "Chou En-lai's speech went further in the renunciation of force than anything he had said before." Dulles, who had not yet heard Colonel Arnold's story, added hopefully that there was some evidence that the Chinese Communists had"laid their pistol down," and that "it might be possible to clear up now some of these practical matters between us." Knock on the U.N. Door...
...traffic whirled wildly as ever, but the license plates on the cars were predominantly Swiss, Italian, German, British, Danish, Dutch and U.S. The chattering voices in the cafes were British, American, Belgian, German-but not French. The locals had left the city to the invaders. In August, France is "en vacances." The Lemmings. In France in August, whole industries (automobiles, steel) shut down, whole streets are shuttered, in a migration as inexorable as lemmings. Railroad stations are loud with the shrill confusion that only the French can produce, each family laden with an amount of baggage that would stagger...
...tourists, the hardest hit is the specialist in out-of-the-way restaurants, anxious to show his friends that little place he discovered two years ago last spring. The doorman whistles for a taxi, then sadly reports: "I'm very sorry, monsieur. So many taxi drivers are en vacances." Conveyed to the address by a limousine, hired at three times the normal price, the tourists are apt to find the restaurant tightly shuttered and a big sign saying: "Fermeture annuelle." On the fourth try they may find one open, though the regular chef is "en vacances" and cannot provide...
...copy to army censors be fore publication. When one paper went to press with blank spaces marked "censored" where stories had been killed, troops confiscated 15,000 copies. A few days later, censorship was extended to pro-government newspapers as well. Then, last week, the government shut down en tirely the country's leading Liberal paper, El Tiempo* Reason: El Tiempo's Editor Roberto Garcia-Pena had rejected an army order to print, as his own statement, a rebuttal to criticism he had leveled at the government. When foreign newsmen filed stories about the shutdown of the internationally...