Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deliveries put France in a towering rage. Frenchmen believe that arms are going straight to the Algerian rebels and that Britain and the United States know...
...discovered in the stately chestnut trees ringing the Rond-point on Paris' Champs Elysées last week; every one would have to be uprooted. Wrote Le Figaro: "Weakened and tormented by polluted air, the hearts of these great trees empty little by little." Frenchmen saw in the words an all too obvious simile for the nation...
THOSE WITHOUT SHADOWS (125 pp.)−Françoise Sagan − Dutton ($2.95). Fifty million Frenchmen cannot only be wrong, they can be plain silly. Since the beginning of last month they have bought nearly 350,000 copies (the U.S. equivalent of more than 1,000,000 sales) of a new novel by Franchise Sagan, and the best that can be said for it is that reading its proofs may have done her some good as occupational therapy following her recent near-fatal auto accident. Author Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile showed a certain flair...
...Sorbonne professor, sponsored by the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Fund, felt the British colonial policy should be the model for France: cooperation with the North African nationalists and their attempts to form a new government. However, Aron recognized that the wish for equality among Frenchmen and the wish to become masters, both prevalent in the French mind, are hard to reconcile...
...Bourgès-Maunoury hammered out a loi-cadre (skeleton law) for Algeria that by the current standards of French opinion was almost generous. It would divide Algeria into half a dozen semi-autonomous regions in which Moslems would for the first time have equal voting rights with Algerian Frenchmen. After two years the regional assemblies were to be allowed to elect a "federal executive council." "With the loi-cadre," said Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, "France will have sympathy and consideration from the free world. Without it, I can answer for nothing...