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Good or Bad. To many Frenchmen, the scene recalled the Popular Fronts that surged to power in the '30s under the banner of militant antifascism. For all the fanfare, however, the new leftist pact was a far cry from that. Although the new league agreed in general that such...
Most Frenchmen seem a little bored with the grandeur of De Gaulle. These days, they find glory enough in a little Gallic warrior who has a droopy yellow mustache and wears a winged beanie, whose force de frappe is not a nuclear bomb but a magic potion that contains-as...
Charles de Gaulle climbed aboard an Air France DC-8 last week and headed eastward around the world. His trip was to last 19 days, and it would undoubt edly bring the glory of enlightened Gaul to three continents. In Ethiopia he was to confer with Emperor Haile Selassie on...
Because the requirements of modern technology are so vast, only the U.S., untouched among the large, powerful nations by the ravages of war and nurtured on a freewheeling capitalism, had the resources to lead the technological advance. By the very nature of the advance, other nations had to follow, adopting...
The explosion marked the start of a new and crucial phase in the development of France's atomic arsenal. From the four explosions in the Sahara in 1960-61 and subsequent tests, the French developed a 60-kiloton Abomb, but it is so bulky that France's 40...