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...Chinese dealers along the 4,000-mile coast of the mainland. Reckless men poured in from every land. When the potent Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. was founded in 1864, it was backed by 14 different firms-British, American, German, Indian, Turkish, Danish-and its first manager was a Frenchman. A British visitor warned that "anyone compelled to come by duty to Hong Kong should have a stout heart and a lively trust in the mercy...
Commenting on his retirement in 1946, as a protest against the "Exclusive regime of parties," De Gaulle wrote these prophetic words as the passed into 12 years of voluntary isolation: "Every Frenchman, whatever his tendencies had the troubling suspicion that with the General vanished something primordial, permanent and necessary which he incarnated in history, and which the regime of parties could not represent. In the sidetracked selected in advance, which could be invoked by common consent as soon as a new laceration threatened the nation...
...Gaulle is only one man, and whether the center will disappear when de Gaulle goes, Aron refuses to guess. He notes earlier in the text that the Frenchman, "dissatisfied on principle," with a tax system, an industrialization program, or an Algerian policy, "tends to vote against." The parties of the extreme satisfy this need for opposition." Aron hopes that facism (or communism) will not have the chance to come to executive power under a constitution written for de Gaulle alone. He suggests "two courses still open": alliance with the Common Market Six to undertake a coalition great power's "task...
That afternoon Debre was still trying to explain that De Gaulle really wants to strengthen rather than weaken NATO when a messenger brought in a dispatch. Adenauer read it and, says a Frenchman, stood petrified, "a hard look in his Mongolian eyes." It was a news agency report of De Gaulle's speech at Grenoble demanding a veto for France on allied use of the nuclear bomb anywhere (TIME, Oct. 17). Pointing at the offending passage, he asked Debre: "What does this mean? If Khrushchev unleashes his rockets on us, must the allies remain paralyzed until France makes...
...intellectual elite-the perfectors of algebra (from the Arabic al-jabr: binding together), the founders of analytical geometry and of plane and spherical trigonometry, pioneers in astronomy (through their need to locate Mecca precisely). As scholars flocked in from all over the world-among them a young Frenchman who later became Pope Sylvester II (999-1003)-Fez flourished as the "Baghdad of the West...