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...aswarm with Parisians back in town from their annual August exodus. Started with the collection set up by the American Library Association for the doughboys of World War I, the library now has some 100,000 books, is largely supported by a paying membership of 3,000 (60% Frenchmen). The library managed to stay open during the German occupation of World War II, is now so efficient that many French graduate students prefer its accessible shelves to the musty stacks of Paris libraries. It recently provided the material for a doctoral thesis on Playwright Tennessee Williams...
Slow and unprepossessing as it was, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra Express was a valiant symbol of what Frenchmen like to call "the French presence" in Algeria. Conceived by Napoleon III and completed under the supervision of Marshal Louis Lyautey, greatest of France's North African proconsuls, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra line is the southernmost portion of a railroad that runs all the way from the Mediterranean port of Oran to the rim of the Sahara...
Deep in the heart of every good German is an abiding conviction that as a succulent symbol of wellbeing, there is nothing to equal the sausage. Some Frenchmen maintain that when Germans cannot sleep, they count sausages rather than sheep. In West Germany last week, as 81-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats carried their election campaign into industrial Essen, Adenauer had the sausages on his side. Wily Campaigner Adenauer talked of sausages, and brought his audience rising with cheers to their feet when he told them just how much more fat sausage they eat in free...
While much of the rest of the world was on August vacation, death took no holiday in Algeria. In one four-day period last week, the French army killed 718 Algerian rebels, and the rebels killed 76 Frenchmen and 59 Moslems, bringing Algeria's death totals in the past three years...
Like those who passed through, many a native of France himself had decided this year to take his ease in another country, where gas is cheaper than the $1 a gallon charged in France. An estimated 1,500,000 Frenchmen had left France by last week to vacation in Spain, Holland or Switzerland, and the visitors arriving to take their place numbered only 60% of normal. "We are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs," moaned the Parisian newspaper L'Aurore. But the geese were still flying, high and far and fast, all over the rest of Europe...