Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coke on the Kiosks Sir: Cheers for that tasty epic, "The Pause That Arouses" [TIME, March 13]. At least five Frenchmen can laugh down the squeaks of those Moscow-suckled shoats against "Bottled American Imperialism." Coca-Cola won their approval on its own grounds! GUY DESSAULLES Pans, France...
Other smug but nonpartisan Frenchmen took up this battle cry. "I like Coca-Cola," wrote a M. Dreyfus to the Paris Herald, "but [Coca-Cola's advertising] has ripped deep into what the French treasure most-their language. One now sees posters and trucks bearing the inscription 'Buvez Coca-Cola.' You can say 'Buvez du Coca-Cola' or 'Buvez le Coca-Cola' but you cannot say 'Buvez Coca-Cola' because this is pidgin French...
...Stars. First guiding spirit of the Mission de Paris was the late Abbe Henri Godin, a shy, intense parish priest who decided that a pastor was virtually helpless in reaching those who did not come to church. He proposed that the church set up a mission to work among Frenchmen with the same dedicated zeal that sends missionaries to spend their lives in hardship in heathen lands. Paris' late Cardinal Suhard and the French archbishops set up the Mission de France in 1941; the Mission de Paris was founded...
...Many Frenchmen were offended by this Russian diplomatic action on Indo-China; more would be shocked when the French Communists showed their hand in sabotage of the military aid program. French Communist leaders understood this and moved with misgiving to carry out Moscow's orders. Last month Communist Jacques Duclos said to a nonCommunist: "If we concentrate all our efforts on the problem of low wages and high living costs, in nine months we shall have on our side the whole working class and a good slice of the petite bourgeoisie...
...splitting began in the days of the German occupation when Frenchmen, brooding over their surrender, began to wonder just how good their education was. Napoleon's laws setting up the public lycées, passed in 1806, still stood. But since then a hodgepodge of other schools had mushroomed about the original system. For the most part, the children of laborers and farmers rarely got as far as the lycees. Those who did, some Frenchmen began to think, received such an overintellectualized brand of instruction that they emerged unfit for the day-today lives that most of them would...