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While Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew off to enlist support for the idea in six South American capitals and Washington, the Arabs said that they are interested in hearing only one word-independence-and that each day without it widens the gap between Arab and Frenchman, drives moderate Arabs to relentless choices, and makes more difficult an eventual reconciliation in peace...
...Algiers French Mayor Jacques Chevallier called a press conference to report on the 5,562 houses built in the city in the past three years. In the next few weeks nearly every U.N. country this side of the Iron Curtain will be visited by a prominent Frenchman, explaining France's position in Algeria. Emile Roche, president of the Economic Council, is already in Buenos Aires. Christian Pineau will go to Brazil, Senate President Gaston Monnerville (a Negro) to Peru, and Foreign Office Under Secretary Maurice Faure to Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Ceylon...
...Rene finds that Ilouhi can "have the same sort of dreams as a white woman," but in the ef fort to share her thoughts and influence her mind he finds that she is "slowly lead ing me back to primitive ideas and in stincts." Fascinated but also scared, the Frenchman writes : "No European woman had ever played the same part in my life." Another Age. The distinguishing qual ity of French colonialism was its lack of racial prejudice. But the war in Indo-China already belongs to another age, and in the once-prized colony, only a few French linger...
...states that dare to accuse France of colonialism," he asked, "is there not a Frenchman proud to answer, in which country among you is there less imperialism, less racism, less enslavement than in ours? It is not to the French, but to civilized public opinion that I pose this simple question: if a number of your compatriots were established anywhere for a long time, would you be so cowardly as to abandon them? Do not count on us to do that. Do not count on us to sacrifice the other side of the Mediterranean as if it were...
...incidental consequences of the French Revolution was the establishment of free spas, so that the peasant could wash out his diseases side by side with the rich man. Since World War II, the French social-security system subsidizes a trip to a spa for nearly any suffering Frenchman who can get his doctor to sign his application. Last year the government paid for between 80% and 100% of the cure cost of some 68,000 adults and children...