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Though most Deputies believe passionately that North Africa must be held at all costs if France is to remain a big power, those who favor holding it by savage repression were on the defensive. The Casablanca murder of Publisher Lemaigre-Dubreuil in Morocco (TIME, June 27), a Frenchman killed by other Frenchmen for being moderate, had stirred all France. Premier Faure seized his chance. His government, said Faure, "will never agree to renounce, palter with, or open to question the French position in Morocco." But there must be a new policy for Morocco and a new man to implement...
From the American point of view, the French presence in North Africa is an example of colonialism, therefore deplorable and fit to be damned. And the Frenchman, meeting this summary damnation, has a tendency to answer that colonialism would have existed in America had the Indian population been encouraged instead of blighted by contact with the white invaders...
...countries. We try to make a good impression everywhere." To make it bet ter, they rehearse two or three hours after breakfast every day, and again after lunch and dinner. Even when sightseeing, they make an impression. One girl, faced with an untranslatable menu, left her table, buttonholed a Frenchman on the street, brought him back and got him to translate the menu while other diners googled...
Puzzling Problems. The Briton and the Frenchman had come to the U.S. for the U.N.'s tenth anniversary ceremonies in San Francisco, but before the birthday party, Dulles, Macmillan and Pinay had to discuss a puzzling problem in world diplomacy: the true reason for the Communists' sudden switch from cold-warriors to peace-shouters. Standing in Sir Pierson's paneled library. Dulles gave the U.S. evaluation of what had caused the Kremlin to accept an Austrian treaty that was less favorable than the one it had rejected out of hand a year before...
...very nearly. It is true too that French youths are indifferent to politics, but could they be more indifferent than the average young comics-and baseball-imbibing American? What does America offer its youth, apart from material comfort . . . Can we have a report on American youth, written by a Frenchman...