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...last Assembly still in jail on charges of sedition, the Reds made their presence felt. A government district worker and a militiaman were ambushed and slain. A band of 60 Communists broke into a rest house north of the capital and stabbed to death Paul Emile Chabert. a Frenchman serving as an education specialist for UNESCO. Later, the Red leader of the band apologized to the murdered man's widow. He had mistakenly thought Chabert was an American, he explained...
...refineries, the world's biggest tanker fleet (551 ships), and interests in oil companies in 76 lands. The Group is - due in large part to his efforts - perhaps the most international group in the business world. At the last budget meeting a Swiss reported on manufacturing, a Frenchman on marketing, an American on finance, a Dutchman on exploration and production. The coordinator (a favorite Shell title) was British. Before the war the Group hired only a few foreigners and nationals, picked them chiefly on the basis of "how closely they resembled Europeans." Most executive positions were held by Europeans...
...that definition, General de Gaulle may easily be the greatest Frenchman of his century. Yet what irritates him most is to discover that his stirrings lead to argument at all. Because he acts from love of country, he often sounds as if he cannot understand why other Frenchmen-or his allies-should oppose...
...Gaulle had reported to Ike on his conversations with Khrushchev, on his belief that worthwhile concessions can be wrung from the Soviet leader at the summit?but no one could think of a question. "Why didn't you ask him?'' a discouraged U.S. newsman snapped at a visiting Frenchman. "He does not talk," answered the Frenchman with a shrug...
Foreigners visiting the unfamiliar New World have their problems, though it is just a canard spread by Columnist Art Buchwald that a Frenchman wrote home that he had a hard time finding a martini with enough vermouth in it. Last year a member of the Japanese Diet toured the U.S. accompanied by an aide loaded down with gallon bottles of sake, a huge box of rice, Japanese pickles, soy sauce and seaweed. Twice nearly ejected from hotels for cooking odoriferous concoctions in his room, he was upbraided when he got back home for causing Japan bad publicity. His explanation...