Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the end of World War II had the U.S.-French alliance been so troubled as in recent weeks. As France suffered one reverse after another in North Africa, many Frenchmen came to believe that the U.S. was indifferent to the decay of the French empire, and even regarded with complacence the possibility of French eviction from Algeria, a part of metropolitan France since 1848. To counter the rising tide of anti-Americanism in France, a clarification of the U.S. position on North Africa was long overdue. Last week, in a Paris speech approved in advance by President Eisenhower...
Solid Support. Now let me turn ... to Algeria. Here the problem is quite different and the solution must undoubtedly be different. The four departments of Algeria are French territory. There are 1,200,000 Frenchmen living in Algeria alongside 8,000,000 Moslems...
North African nationalists were outraged by the Dillon speech, which Algerian Leader Messali Hadj called "contrary to the principles of American democracy." Frenchmen, however, cheered it. Said French Premier Guy Mollet: "President Eisenhower and Mr. Dillon are great friends of France. I want to express my thanks and those of my country to both of them...
Passing Fancy? Whoever won in any such contest between thugs of the right and left, the center voices of moderation would be likely to lose. In France, the moderate's voice is getting harder to hear. Every day, as the Mollet government fumbles, Frenchmen die in Algeria, French anger and disgust swells, Poujade's dynamic appeal grows more persuasive to many disillusioned Frenchmen. "It is getting painful to be French," observed Novelist Albert Camus recently...
Caroline Chérie, as she is known to countless thousands of Frenchmen, always wins-not least when she chooses to surrender. She is like the heroine of an old movie serial, with the important difference that where the movie heroine was chained fully clothed to the tracks to be torn asunder by the Santa Fe express, Caroline is generally denuded by pursuers intent on joining her in union specific. As she herself sportingly admits at a critical moment (she is hanging almost naked from a rafter in a subzero temperature): "There is something better to do with . . . women than...