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There, in words Frenchmen hardly expect to hear these days, M'bida, the African, complained that Ramadier. the Frenchman, was trying to propel the Cameroons toward independence too rapidly. And with one of those sideswipes for which he had become notorious. M'bida declared: "I regret that in disavowing me, Mr. Ramadier furnished support-which I would like to believe was involuntary-to the agents of the Soviet Union...
Pleas in Private. But for most of his stay in Paris, the President was immersed in the problems of the present. He had already conferred privately with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. France's Felix Gaillard had called to tell the President that practically every Frenchman is convinced that the U.S. has covert designs on North Africa, particularly on the Sahara's oil. Shocked, Ike told Gaillard emphatically that the U.S. had no intention of supplanting French interests in North Africa, or of interfering in the war in Algeria...
French intellectuals are never happier than when planting the horns of a dilemma on another Frenchman's head. Raymond Aron, brilliant political commentator and Sorbonne professor of philosophy, contends that this intellectual thingumbobbery makes French thinkers and their followers so outrageous and opinionated, so unable to get along with one another, that it is a wonder France exists...
...opened the regular weekly session of the West German Cabinet, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's unsmiling face was grimmer than ever. "Meine Herren," he began, "we have a very serious development for the world. For the good of everyone we must hope that President Eisenhower recovers quickly." Said a Frenchman: "My God, first it was the Sputniks, and now this. It looks as if God is on the wrong side...
Only the most legalistic Frenchman could argue last week that the Algerian rebellion was a strictly domestic problem. Morocco's Mohammed V conferred with Secretary Dulles about it in Washington, the U.N. debated it in New York, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan went to Paris to reassure Premier Félix Gaillard of British backing (but refused to pledge that Britain under no circumstances would supply more arms to Tunisia...