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...with "Mr. Europe." First item on the agenda was the election of a new president to replace Jean Monnet, the indefatigable little Frenchman who first proposed the Coal-Steel pool and who has done most to make it work. Monnet resigned last fall in protest against the scuttling of EDC in the French National Assembly and the trend toward nationalism throughout Western Europe. Last month, hoping to stage a comeback for himself on the European idea, Monnet decided to seek re-election after all. But when his name came up last week as a possible French nominee...
...Ondes Martenot, a less versatile but considerably simpler instrument, is the brainchild of Maurice Martenot, a slight, bespectacled Frenchman with a bumblebee mustache and a practical outlook. The Martenot has been manufactured and sold (190 models at about $700 each), can be mastered in a few months, is already used by the Paris Opera and theaters. It has had 518 compositions written for it, some by such first-rate composers as Honegger and Milhaud. It utilizes a keyboard and a metalized ribbon that produces slithery glissandos, can control color and volume through other accessories, but cannot play chords...
Turning back to past glories, especially to the prosperous days of 1900, is a current French fad. To youth this fashion seems only an attempt to camouflage the weaknesses of the present. Whatever his class, the young Frenchman has during the past ten years watched the old institutions crumble, has seen nothing new emerge to take their place. Instead, he has been offered economic stagnation, social emptiness and political hypocrisy, all smothered in flowery oratory and nostalgic festivity...
...Paris. Just like members of the family, they are snarled at by French cab drivers, roared at by French traffic cops, sneered at by hotel clerks, ignored by public servants, cursed by motorists and contemned by streetwalkers and beggars. With cocked brow and curling lip, the casual metropolitan Frenchman seems to regard most alien bewilderment as stupidity, any request as unreasonable, and all tips too small. For the visitor, the chief comfort to be derived from this situation is that Frenchmen seem to treat one another in much the same fashion...
...understand you," said the Frenchman. "The palace is being shelled," Diem repeated. "If it happens again, I shall order the National Army to respond...