Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemy is. The man who serves your food and drives your car may be in one country a Mau Mau and in the other a Viet Minh. It is a colonial war, not so much in reality any more, but still so in the minds of some Frenchmen who have not unlearned the past, and in the minds of some Vietnamese who will not forget it. It is a civil war, too: countryman fighting countryman, often not because of differing convictions but because of the accident of geography and which side was there to conscript him. The Vietnamese nationalists tell...
...below). Glaring headlines and the wrench of huge casualty figures jolted the French public. Parisians by the thousands paid visits to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe, and tiny bunches of violets, bought for a few francs in honor of nameless fallen Frenchmen half a world away, were deposited alongside the big formal wreaths that are nearly always there...
Hagridden by fear of Germany, influenced by Molotov's propaganda bluff that EDC "cannot fail to lead to World War III," more and more Frenchmen are attracted by the notion of a global package deal: a cease-fire in Indo-China for rejection of EDC. Jacques Soustelle, a power in the Gaullist party, said last week: "If France should obtain a cessation of hostilities and, at the same time, reject EDC, she would gain at both tables...
...Test of Sincerity. For both Germans and Frenchmen, the Saar was a serious test of sincerity. In the course of three great wars between them, the Saar has changed hands four times. Its 1,000,000 sturdy coal miners, steelworkers and farmers speak and live as Germans, but since 1947, when the Allies linked the Saar's economy to that of France, the Saarlanders by their ballots have shown that they approve the 1947 arrangement...
After hearing the evidence, the court threw out the libel suit, ruled that the charges against L'Humanité "are likely to be true." Added L'Aurore last week: "Such a judgment should open the eyes of those Frenchmen . . . who think that . . . the Communists have the interests of France at heart just like anyone else...