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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Awaiting the Verdict | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Diaspora Age | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...According to 50 million Frenchmen: "Nevaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

Last week Premier Michel Debré rose in the French Assembly and proclaimed that the time had come to crack down on the home distillers. He had found it impossible to police more than 2,100,000 Frenchmen holding home-distilling permits; in some departments, there is a home still for every other adult male, with a gallon and a half of illegal booze produced for every gallon distilled under legal limitations. Furthermore, the ocean of homemade booze was killing too many Frenchmen, he argued. "In the past 14 years,'' said Debré, "total deaths from alcoholism have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Potted Planters | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

Some 45 million Frenchmen got mildly shattering news from the tabloid Paris-Jour, which published a scoop that Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot will end her movie career within a year. "I've had enough of the life I'm leading," Paris-Jour had BB saying. "I'm 25 years old. In ten more years, adieu to youth. So I want to enjoy it a little and say adieu to the cinema and practice the profession I like best in the world." Breathless readers then learned that Brigitte's favorite profession is one of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

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