Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father's business of operating San Francisco's famed cable cars. He and his wife Sarah lived mostly in and around Paris: they not only commissioned Le Corbusier to build them a villa, but they also got interested in Matisse and Picasso at a time when few Frenchmen would touch them...
Tomorrow Is My Turn (Show Corporation), the work of France's André Cayatte (Justice Is Done, We Are All Murderers), illustrates in skillful melodrama some subtle reflections on apparent and actual freedom and bondage. The subject is discussed in terms of two Frenchmen, one an uneducated baker (Charles Aznavour), the other a sophisticated journalist (Georges Riviere), who go off to fight the Germans in 1939. The baker, lacking any desire to fight, goes because he is told to-his decision seems to be forced. The journalist, declining a deferment, goes because he chooses to ("I want...
...Moslem lawyers, civil servants and professional men who have never hidden their nationalist sympathies are expected to serve. De Gaulle's government concedes that the nomination of Europeans to the executive may be difficult because the vast majority hate and fear the F.L.N., and that "outsiders," i.e., Metropolitan Frenchmen, may have to be brought in. The specific tasks of the Provisional Executive will be: 1) to set up and command a 90,000-member Force Publique that will maintain law and order in Algeria along with the French army, and will consist of Moslem militiamen and conscripts together with...
...nine days, Frenchmen and Algerians coolly kept their distance, even ate in separate rooms. During the last 14-hour session, the two teams finally shared sandwiches at the conference table; when the guerrilla war was over at last, Louis Joxe and every member of his delegation shook hands with the Algerians. Then, with skis still strapped to their cars, each delegation drove off with copies of the 100-page agreement that spelled out Joxe's initial aim: "To enable the men and women of Algeria to build their future together...
...returned to power, Joxe became Secretary of State to Premier Debré, presided over far-reaching government reforms. According to friends, Joxe was disappointed that he had not become De Gaulle's Foreign Minister, but he has performed so brilliantly in the Algerian negotiations that last week Frenchmen were already discussing him as a possible Premier...