Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris newspaper Le Monde reflected the troubled conscience of Frenchmen faced once more by crisis at home and war abroad that could neither be won nor ended. "Certainly these Soviet approaches furnish arguments for those politicians and military men who insist that our army fights for the defense of the West in Algeria," said Le Monde. "But does not experience prove, on the contrary, that it is the continuation of the war which draws Communist influence to Algeria...
Expressing the uneasiness of French youth about bearing arms in the sixth year of the Algerian war, the teachers' union issued a manifesto that "the problem of youth has now become the problem of the nation." Young Frenchmen have gone to jail for aiding the rebel FLN. Lyons' Cardinal Gerlier asked prayers to end "the devastating war in Algeria and the terrible problems it poses to the consciences of many, particularly among the young...
...Frenchmen looked up in wonder last year as a big orange balloon carrying two passengers floated back and forth across the country. Photographed by movie cameras in an accompanying helicopter, the balloon whisked by the spires of the Strasbourg Cathedral, almost bumped into the Eiffel Tower, skimmed within a few yards of Mont Blanc, dipped down to mast level over the Riviera. In Paris last week the resulting film, Voyage in a Balloon, gave audiences a stunning cloud's-eye view of virtually every remarkable tourist sight in France...
...hand, and adulatory crowds joined him in emotional mass renditions of the Marseillaise. But back in Paris sobersided Le Monde sadly warned: "France has no chance of playing the role she legitimately claims in the world as long as this wound of Algeria is open on her side. Frenchmen will not have to wait very much longer to find out if the monarch to whom they confided their destiny at a critical time has really been able to change the course of history or if . . . like so many others, he has only put off the inevitable day of reckoning...
...Community? Those Jews who remain outside Israel will continue to be concerned for the welfare of their fellow Jews there, as they will be for Jews all over the world. But politically, argues I Toynbee, they will be Americans, Frenchmen, Englishmen, etc., even more firmly than they were before. Does this mean that the Diaspora-the dispersed group I of Jewish communities outside Israel-is ! doomed to extinction? On the contrary, I says Toynbee. "It has a magnificent future on a religious basis if it bases itself on religion alone...