Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million citizens have any real purchasing power. Even Australia, Britain's best Commonwealth customer, has a population only slightly larger than Paris and Rome combined. Despite high tariffs on British imports, Europeans already have a healthy appetite for marmalade and Jaguars, Wedgwood china and Scotch whisky (which chic Frenchmen fancy in le long drink}. British sweaters and men's shoes, chocolates and cloth-but not what Parisians call "weedytweedy"-also rate high with Continentals. The British, in turn, have shown a growing desire for Continental products and even customs. British import duties make the Volkswagen $370 more...
...Gaulle implied, for the task of constitutional reform that would make a strong executive a permanent feature of French life. As for the "last bloody clouds" caused by the terrorism of the Secret Army Organization, they would soon disappear, together with the S.A.O. strategy of "assassination, theft and blackmail." Frenchmen, sickened by the seven-year war in Algeria and by the S.A.O.'s senseless brutality, could only hope that De Gaulle was right-even though the "bloody clouds" appeared to last longer than many political weather forecasters had predicted. If the battle was already lost for the S.A.O...
...opinion of France's then Premier Michel Debré after the Ivory Coast's Independence Day Ball, Thérèse allowed that "He's nice," but added that "he doesn't cha cha half as well" as another statesman at the party. Frenchmen, who call her the Ivory One and see her as the forerunner of a new, Europe-influenced African woman, delight in her exuberant, ultrafeminine wit. It did not go unappreciated at a recent luncheon party at Bobby Kennedy's house, at which, latching on fast to New Frontiersmanship, she switched...
...order, particularly the gendarmerie," which has done most of the fighting against the S.A.O. De Gaulle cried angrily: "There's no more state. There's no more democracy. It can't go on like this!" He bitterly contrasted his popular support among the mass of Frenchmen with the "resistance" on the part of the army and the judiciary...
Previously de Gaulle has demanded strict obedience from the French Army in achieving an independent Algeria. According to his standard, Generals Jouhaud and Salan have committed treason in their efforts to keep Algeria French and therefore ought to be executed, regardless of their past records. Although many Frenchmen sympathize with the two officers as men driven to extremes by a sense of honor, the President's position has enjoyed almost universal support among his countrymen. In offering to trade a life for a life, deGaulle lowers himself to the level of the O.A.S. and tacitly admits that his former position...