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ONCE when old Georges Clemenceau was accused of bringing down one French government after another, he retorted: "But it's always the same government." Perhaps it was then, but is it now? For TIME Correspondent Godfrey Blunden's report on the tensions that grip Frenchmen as they search for a government-and their place in the 20th century - see FOREIGN NEWS, Paris in the Spring...
Next-to-Last Straw. In the evening, hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen who have chosen to devote the day to a pique-nique in the woods, eating off little tables set out under the beech trees and gathering bunches of bluebells are home again, relaxing before their TV sets. There, against the frame of Coty's doorway, they can see and hear how each of the three potential Radical Premiers called by the President greets this honor...
...Cascade in Paris' beautiful park, the Bois de Boulogne, the extermination of hundreds of the Maquis, the destruction of the old port of Marseille, the deportation of the faculty of the University of Strasbourg, and the deportation from France of 120,000 Jews and 80,000 other Frenchmen, at least half of whom died in Nazi concentration camps or gas chambers. Frenchmen called Karl Oberg "the Butcher of Paris...
...wing tough elected as a Poujadist, interrupted: "Of the two dangers that menace the independence of France-Bolshevik Russia and the United States-the latter is by far the worse." Then the banderilleros retired, and Gaillard found himself face to face with burly Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, the man whom Frenchmen have come to call Jacques le tombeur-Jacques the Cabinet-wrecker...
...Though Frenchmen may not intend it that way, whenever they flout world opinion, German stock tends to go up. This truism was evident in London last week. The 20th century reflex is to think of Britons and Germans as mortal enemies, and Britons and French as fond allies. But before the two World Wars, the opposite was more often the case. As late as the end of the 19th century, Britain's obvious partner in trade, diplomacy and royal bedrooms was Germany. "The natural alliance," said Salisbury's Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain on Nov. 30, 1899, "is between...