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...matter to most Frenchman that abroad, De Gaulle kept Britain out of Europe, did his annoying best to thwart the U.S., meddled in Quebec and increasingly behaved like a cantankerous old man. There is a little of Napoleon in every French breast, and the nation took a certain pride in De Gaulle's ability to command far more attention for France than its power and resources deserved...
...Girard met Premier Chou En-lai and told him of an ambitious plan. He would like, said Girard, to put together the first guidebook to China since the Communists took power in 1949-and indeed, since the Japanese railways tried to produce one in 1924. Chou looked at the Frenchman in disbelief, saying only: "I wish you lots of luck...
...turned out to be a top-ranking defector from the KGB. Russia's ubiquitous security apparatus, whose French code name was "Martel." Martel's marathon debriefing in Washington by men from several NATO countries produced evidence that eventually unmasked some 200 KGB agents, including Georges Paques, a Frenchman and senior NATO official, who was imprisoned. When members of the French SDECE began questioning Martel, they were startled by his claims. He said that 1) he had "information pointing to" the presence of a Soviet spy among De Gaulle's closest advisers; 2) at least five French agencies...
...affair, written by De Vosjoli's friend Leon Uris, has been on book counters for months in the bestseller Topaz. U.S. diplomats braced for a Gallic storm over it, but none materialized-perhaps because Topaz was not published in France. As of last week, all that the average Frenchman had read of the affair was some chatty, rather unalarmed accounts in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine and a few other papers. Despite the Elysee Palace's determination to live above the tempest, it may not be able to maintain that altitude...
...Writer-Director Claude Berri tells a simple tale of the love of a small Jewish boy and an old anti-Semitic Frenchman without jerking a tear, hoking a climax, or ringing in the alarums that a World War II setting has ready at hand...