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...Cinevox Théátre, which still advertised a movie called La Dernièe Chance. A big cotton mill, which once employed about 20,000 Vietnamese, was also closed down, but the French mill operators seemed in no great hurry to leave. Said one wrinkled old Frenchman, who had lived in Namdinh for 17 years: 'The Viets will not want to keep our mill closed down. We shall go back to work within 15 days.' Only a day or two before the fall, a couple of soft-drink executives were in Namdinh from Hanoi, making their plans...
...throughout Viet Nam, the wait-and-see-ists are going over to the Communists for one easily comprehensible reason: the Communists are strong, the West is weak, and the Communists are winning. 'It is not a matter of mind or heart or preference,' explained one weary Frenchman. 'It is simply a matter of safety.' Said a dejected Vietnamese councilman: 'The people do not like the Viet Minh. But what can they...
...textiles 11%, chemicals 20%, electricity 15% over the same month in 1953. Altogether France's total industrial output is nearly 8.2% higher than a year ago. The difficulty is that higher production has yet to reflect itself in substantially lower prices or higher wages for the average Frenchman...
Those who dodged such books as Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, were probably nailed by the movie versions...
...hallmarks of a Frenchman supposedly is le bon sens-common sense. But two Frenchmen have put out books about experiences that belie the national characteristic. One decided to penetrate the Amazonian jungle and make friends with cannibals. The other proposed crossing the Atlantic alone in a 15-ft. dinghy fitted with a single tiny sail. Both were displaying uncommon sense, which is the kind that turns the key on adventure and opens doors to discovery...