Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frenchmen are drinking themselves to death at a faster rate than ever. Dr. Guy Godlewski, a Paris hormone specialist, told the French Academy of Medicine last week that after wartime's austerity, the number of deaths from cirrhosis of the liver quadrupled from 1947 to 1950, tripled again by 1956. The peak total that year: 20,279 deaths from alcoholism, 14-176 of them from cirrhosis. Cause of the trouble is not hard liquor, said Dr. Godlewski, which most Frenchmen use sparingly, but ordinary red wine, or le gros rouge. Alcoholism is not the only contributing cause of cirrhosis...
...illnesses that De Gaulle would have to treat were many and grave. Frenchmen themselves had so little faith in their country's future that early last week they were converting their assets into West German marks at the rate of several million dollars a day. The balance-of-payments deficit was running $40 million a month, and all that stood between internally prosperous France and international bankruptcy was the remains (about $500 million) of the $650 million in foreign loans which the Gaillard government negotiated in Washington last January. Only by restricting its imports could France hope to regain...
...verge of civil war. After having fought so much against the enemy in the past 40 years, will Frenchmen tomorrow fight against Frenchmen...
...hour of peril for our country and the Republic, I have turned to the most illustrious of all Frenchmen, to the man who, during the darkest years of our history, was our leader in the reconquest of liberty and who, having secured national unanimity around himself, refused dictatorship in order to establish the Republic . . . I am asking General de Gaulle to confer with the Chief of State and to examine with him what, within the bounds of republican legality, is immediately required for a government of national safety, and what can be done within a reasonable period of time thereafter...
...Gaulle is no doubt a difficult man--stubborn, conceited, obsessed by a sense of his personal mission to restore France to greatness. His concept of political leadership smacks suspiciously of authoritarianism to many Frenchmen who hold zealous devotion to the ideals of individual liberty and the inherent virtue of la Republique as it stands. Such devotion, laudable as it may be in the abstract, is, however, sometimes blind to the practical requirements of government. France's present national crisis seems to be one of these occasions. De Gaulle, offering resolution to a country that has been plagued by political pusillanimity...