Word: franco-american
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...government's Red troubles were not over. Before the final vote, Communist deputies put on a riotous show that was even more violent and abusive than last week's. Cracked a Foreign Office official who must attend this week's debate on ratification of the Franco-American military aid agreement: "Where could I borrow a suit of armor...
...Washington, State Department officials made plans to carry the case of Coca-Cola right into the Quai d'Orsay, headquarters of French diplomacy. France's ban, State was prepared to point out, was contrary to Franco-American trade agreements which provided for low U.S. tariffs (40^ to $1.25 on a gallon) on most French wines in return for similar French concessions on soft drink concentrates...
Scouts had picked Chicago's big Civic Opera House as "the place to open in America." While they waited for the company to arrive from Montreal, Chicago's socialites and Franco-American clubs prepared a Bourbonic welcome. There would be a huge party backstage in the famous Gold Key room on opening night. And the French Embassy was sending a diplomat to make it official...
...Information Service, with an eye and an ear to bettering Franco-American relations, added its plea. At week's end, Brigadier General Paul W. Thompson, chief of the Army's Information and Education Division, granted a reprieve: AFN's staff of 28, which prepares 88 shows a week, would stand by for another fortnight. A way might be found, the General hinted, to keep the popular AFN network going. The French radio audience could still twist the dial to AFN, sit back and have a good time...
...cinemeritus who set an example that few movie stars followed and fewer equaled-she quit Hollywood fame & fortune for three solid years of war work-was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. France paid tribute to her Red Crossing among soldiers during the liberation, her broadcasts boosting Franco-American understanding...