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While Charles de Gaulle has not hesitated to trumpet or try to exploit the vulnerability of the dollar, he has been strangely silent about mounting economic problems at home. Other Frenchmen are less reticent. Premier Georges Pompidou admits that the French economy has shown "a certain slowing of growth, even a stagnation of production." The usually docile Patronat-French equivalent of the National Association of Manufacturers-is so disturbed by the letdown that it has formally criticized government economic policies for the first time in memory. In Paris recently, a cartel of steel producers met to survey France...
...Million Frenchmen Wronged. The most recent danger signal was a sharp January dip in automobile production, down 26% from a year ago. Textile production has fallen 10%, forcing many small firms into merger or bankruptcy. There have been other serious declines, ranging from 5% in metal products to 16% in construction materials. Exports are 8% below their 1964 levels, railway freight tonnage has decreased more than 5%, and the newspaper Le Monde estimates that a million Frenchmen have had their purchasing power reduced by dismissals or short work weeks...
...French economy. Influential former Premier Michel Debré is pressing for more controls; Pompidou and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing argue for more free enterprise. Though the Gaullists see no compelling political reasons at the moment for relaxing the present unpopular controls, most Frenchmen are confident that relief will come later this year. Reason: the next French presidential election must be held by December, and De Gaulle will want his voters to be contented and prospering...
...route to El Alamein, the Frenchmen sweat and struggle while the German sneers. When they are bogged down in the sand, he refuses to dig. When he begins to unbend and reaches under a seat to offer an injured man a first-aid kit, they clobber him unconscious. Shirtless and wearing German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push...
Millions of Frenchmen are growing old with him--"Look," they say, "he seems tired tonight," or conversely, "Charlie's in good form." Entirely unlike the Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984 he resembles an elderly uncle, "someone you would like for your grandfather," as the Readers Digest once...