Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forgotten dust heap. The French Revolution, unlike the American and Russian Revolutions, was not left to work out its destiny in remote solitude. France's pre-Revolutionary success had made it the center of the world. What happened at the center concerned all. Within the souls of Frenchmen, and outside the borders of their country, the counter-revolutionary pressures mounted. The tumult of the irresistible crunching against the immovable made constructive thought impossible...
...Great Weakness. Thus in the formative years of modern France a pattern was set that persisted into the relatively calm decades; even when they had time, Frenchmen did not concentrate on political institutions. They could, and did, think seriously on the lofty level of eternal verities in the relation of man and society, tapping the springs of pre-Revolutionary French thought, both conservative and radical. Or they could, and usually did, conduct their politics in terms of the expediency of the moment, carelessly altering and confusing their political institutions to conform to fitful winds. Modern France always takes itself seriously...
That millions of French workers are born Marxists does not mean that Marx is a legitimate heir of the French Revolution. He is an interloper who picked up the allegiance of millions of Frenchmen while the leaders of France were locked in the long, unended struggle between the Revolution and the old order...
...Vote for the Stupidest." Haunted by the fear of both Bonaparte and Bourbon restorations, the Frenchmen who reconstituted the Republic after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 reduced the powers of the President to almost honorary dimensions. Thereafter, the jealous deputies usually selected as President the kind of man who would not try to broaden the scope...
...Empire Marshal put out from London to pick up war materials at French ports for hard-pressed French soldiers fighting Communists in Indo-China. At Dunkirk, Communist dockers refused to load the ship. Propaganda leaflets, mysteriously appearing in the crew's quarters, read: "Young Frenchmen are killed every day far from their homes and country in this criminal colonial war because American imperialists want to use Indo-China as a strong point against Free China and Soviet Russia...