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...Cold in the Sea. Even Frenchmen, traditionally set in their views, whether Catholic, Protestant or skeptic, are giving a hearing to the young Americans who come to call. In the southern industrial city of Nimes (pop. 90,000), Craig Colton, 22, of Los Angeles and Gary Harris, 20, of Taber, Alberta talk with 50 to 100 people...
Amazingly, the Tunisians made no individual reprisals against the 180,000 French citizens scattered throughout the country. In all, President Bourguiba ordered the arrest of only 300 Frenchmen, some of whom were released the next...
...Tragedy," says the Chorus of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, "is clean"--but the play itself belies this. For Anouilh, writing in 1944, the filth of politics and administration seemed more real than the antiseptic heroics of Sophoclean tragedy. Like the Frenchmen of the day his Thebans are all preoccupied with authority and sordid disorder, a preoccupation intensified in the English language version by Lewis Galantiere's consistent use of rough American slang...
...Frenchmen slowly realized just how deeply the Hundred Hours had cut into the body of France, they could also recognize just how much they owed to the iron nerve of Charles de Gaulle (even the advisory Council of State, at the moment of crisis, had refused, 57 to 47, to vote the government its confidence). But De Gaulle had not wavered. Last week he was grimly pressing to reopen talks with the Moslem F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale), hoping to negotiate independence for Algeria before the shattered ultras could reorganize. For it was unlikely that even Charles...
...their embarrassment over the mutiny, some Frenchmen looked hard for some scapegoat who was not French. Much of the French press, egged on by some French officials, tried at length to implicate the U.S., zeroing in on that favorite target of recent weeks, the Central Intelligence Agency...