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And, dreamlike, life went on in many parts of the city as though the North Vietnamese divisions were hundreds of miles away. Banners still proclaimed military victories in the province of Long Khanh ("a big cemetery of the North Vietnamese aggressors"), although the region was lost. At the fashionable Cercle...
Future Like the Past. After 30 years of studying war and its causes, Gaston Bouthoul, director of Paris' Institut Francais de Polémologie (from the Greek polemos or war, and logos, study), confesses that he is no nearer an understanding of it than when he began. What he...
THE ALGERIAN WAR jarred the students out of their slumber and acquiescence to adult organizations. Outraged with colonial atrocities students roared out into the streets daily. New groups proliferated with the most militant and politically conscious such as Jeune Resistance, Mouvement Anti-Colonialiste Francais, and Groupe Nizan secretly helping the...
The U.D.-V' is the most recent incarnation of the Gaullist political party that began life after the war as the Rassemblement du Peuple Francais and later became the Union pour la Nouvelle République. Its policy is whatever the general says, its followers a mélange...
At present the best collection of American silent films resides not in the American archives at Eastman House and the Museum of Modern Art, but in the Cinematheque Francais in Paris. The AFI, a private corporation based in Washington, D.C., initially endowed by the government, the Ford foundation, and the...