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...illnesses that De Gaulle would have to treat were many and grave. Frenchmen themselves had so little faith in their country's future that early last week they were converting their assets into West German marks at the rate of several million dollars a day. The balance-of-payments deficit was running $40 million a month, and all that stood between internally prosperous France and international bankruptcy was the remains (about $500 million) of the $650 million in foreign loans which the Gaillard government negotiated in Washington last January. Only by restricting its imports could France hope to regain...
...verge of civil war. After having fought so much against the enemy in the past 40 years, will Frenchmen tomorrow fight against Frenchmen...
...Gaulle is no doubt a difficult man--stubborn, conceited, obsessed by a sense of his personal mission to restore France to greatness. His concept of political leadership smacks suspiciously of authoritarianism to many Frenchmen who hold zealous devotion to the ideals of individual liberty and the inherent virtue of la Republique as it stands. Such devotion, laudable as it may be in the abstract, is, however, sometimes blind to the practical requirements of government. France's present national crisis seems to be one of these occasions. De Gaulle, offering resolution to a country that has been plagued by political pusillanimity...
Payday. When the integration movement started, it was mainly inspired and organized by the army, whose leaders recognized that associating Moslems and Frenchmen would give the insurrection a strength it could never achieve if it were based solely on exasperation with the politicians in Paris. Military trucks and buses were commandeered to bring fellahin in from their farms, and the army saw to it that Moslem demonstrators did not lose a day's pay. The Moslem stevedores from the Algiers docks had good reason to join in, too. Since maritime traffic with France had been cut off. they were...
...rounded up eyewitness accounts of valets and those Napoleon treated as valets: mistresses, bodyguards and generals, tailors, aides-de-camp, and such luminaries of the age as Goethe and Metternich. Out of the intimate, often lurid documentation emerges no hero but a devastating closeup of the man who convinced Frenchmen they were a race of heroes, and split nations apart like ripe fruit to show that "given 500,000 men, one can do anything...