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...military before everything else." But the news also strengthened the government's demand that French Resident Minister Robert Lacoste get special powers to handle the situation. With his opening words to the Assembly, Lacoste drew a crash of applause from everyone except the Communists : "Not a single Frenchman-I say this for the ears of the great powers as well as for our adversaries-will stand by and watch France chased from a land where she implanted herself by the dubious right of arms, but which she conquered by the indubitable right of a civilizing mission of humanity...
...Ordinary Frenchman. Pierre Poujade looks like a peasant and makes the most of it. He avoids ties in favor of turtleneck sweaters or open-throat shirts. His shoes are often unshined, his pants unpressed, his nails dirty, his light beard unshaven. He prefers his country red wine to champagne, the kitchen to the living room, and he drinks his soup from his plate. He boasts that he has no book learning. "Why should I study books? I know more already than the people who wrote them." He tells crowds: "I'm just le petit Poujade, an ordinary Frenchman like...
...high priest placed a fig leaf behind Suramarit's ear, symbol of long life and wisdom. A few minutes earlier Sihanouk had himself made Premier again, and delivered a little speech accusing the U.S. of wishing to take over and enlarge the Cambodian army. Said a Frenchman, amused by the U.S. predicament, "When he was King, we used to say le Roi est fou [the King is mad]." Last week the ex-King announced that his next ambition is to represent Cambodia at the United Nations in New York...
...years the earnest masses of Music I have slurped mustard on Milhaud as they tried to cram the week's listening assignment into a lunch hour whiled away in the dank Paine Hall basement. Neither their appetite for ham nor their taste for the good Frenchman was aroused; snatching idle moments through the day to study for a full course in Harvard College often seemed a hopeless exercise. Certain hours became more popular than others, often the room was overcrowded and the listening time seemed restrictive. With a music library promised for Autmun, and a Lamont record collection at least...
Pineau spoke with the acerbity of a Frenchman sick and tired of hearing only criticism from his allies. His speech made no stir in France, a nation oppressed by long years of retreat and humiliation, and all too ready to believe that the fault must be somewhere else...