Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Africa: first, "the rights and interests of France and Frenchmen," then "to lead the Tunisian and Moroccan peoples to the point where they can manage their own affairs...
...adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery. But the film was passed by the French censorship, and with Cardinal Gerlier's unintentioned advertisement, Frenchmen flocked to see Caroline Chérie. Paris receipts in the first three weeks were $140,000. The film was rushed to the provinces...
...Gaulle accused the U.S. of backing the Right by "creating the impression of a certain security" with the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic Treaty. "Thus, the effort which I-surrounded by resolute Frenchmen-have been leading since the war, to enable our country to find its unity at last and to put at its head a real government, has so far failed to achieve its aim. I recognize this without equivocation. One must fear that it is to the detriment of France...
Simplicity & Grandeur. Neither Right nor Left was ready to rejoice at the dissolution of the intransigent Gaullist party. Many Frenchmen share his criticism of impotent postwar French politics, though rejecting his drastic remedies. Said leftist Combat: "Whatever each of us may think about General de Gaulle, it is impossible to ignore the simplicity, even grandeur, with which he recognizes his failure." Said conservative Le Monde...
...most Frenchmen the prophecy was undeniably gloomy. De Gaulle might answer that the prophet Jeremiah, in whose lifetime the Scythians swept over most of the civilized world, was also accused of undue gloominess...