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...Americain [It is argued] that the Americans are buying Europe with their balance of payments deficit; that the technological gap and the brain drain together represent a new form of imperialism; that all this comes from the export of Mr. Galbraith's modern industrial state. A brilliant Frenchman, M. Servan-Schreiber, recently published a book about all this which he calls Le Deéuú Americain [The American Challenge; TIME, Nov. 24]. He rejects any protectionist or negative reply by Europe to this challenge. He recognizes that the challenge is inescapable...
...eminent visiting Frenchman was being shown through the Art Institute of Chicago by its then president, Chauncey McCormick, when he asked in astonishment: "How can you possibly afford all these marvelous impressionist pictures?" The proud response was: "We do not buy them; we inherit them from our grandmothers...
Evidence from the diaries presented during the trial indicated that Debray was actually a courier between Guevara ("Ramon") and Fidel Castro ("Leche"), who was supplying money, arms, training and medicines to the revolutionaries. "The Frenchman wants to join us," Che wrote in his diary March 21. "I asked him to go organize a network of support in France, where he would return after passing through Havana. He wants to marry his girl and have a son." Then on March 25: "Long oral report on the situation to the Frenchman. We decided to call the movement the National Liberation Front...
After a month in the high jungle wilderness, Debray became anxious to return to France and get on with his task. "The Frenchman," Guevara wrote, "dwells too vehemently on the usefulness of his foreign mission." In early April, Guevara gave the impatient Debray three options: "First, continue with us. Second, get out alone. Third, go to [the town of] Gutierrez," and make his way back to La Paz. Debray chose the third alternative, and toward mid-April he left the camp with Bustos and Roth-only to be captured a few hours later...
...American eyes, André Maurois was the official, standard model of the perfect Frenchman: urbane, epigrammatic, totally literate and beyond despair. A connoisseur of the senses, he believed that "the world of appearance is the only one we will ever know." While the existentialist crowds stormed intellectual bastilles, he coolly sat down to write in his luxurious apartment overlooking the Bois de Boulogne, carefully dressed for literature (blue serge suit, quiet four-in-hand, expensive leather carpet slippers). An unabashed Anglophile, he became a one-man diplomatic corps to the English-speaking world; from the Anglo-Saxon point of view...