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...France, for all its crisis of government itself, industrial production has doubled since 1938. Citroen is 18 months behind the demand in production of its sleek new DS-igs; vacation resorts are booked solidly for July and August-not only with foreign tourists but with Frenchmen. In all France, though there are many poor, only 82,000 are unemployed. Every weekend restaurants and hotel dining rooms in provincial towns are crowded with whole French families eating a meal priced at no less than $3 a place...
...parachuted into France from Britain. During the invasion of Normandy he was dropped behind the German lines to organize sabotage, was severely wounded, ended the war with the rank of colonel and a chestful of medals, including the Compaction de la Libération (held by only 600 living Frenchmen). A Deputy since 1946. he has served in a dozen Cabinets, holding such portfolios as Finance. Interior and Defense. A strong pro-European who quit the Mendés-France Cabinet in 1954 after the defeat of EDC, he has been fighting Mendés-France ever since within...
...lunch hours, Friday instead of Sunday holidays. Even Premier Bourguiba could not resist saying, "When I see a French gendarme, I choke with anger." He fired all 2,500 French cops and customs officials and several thousand minor French bureaucrats, replacing them with Tunisians. As a result, 50,000 Frenchmen (approximately 30%) have left Tunisia for France. Several weeks ago, faced with a shortage of skilled Arabs to run his administration, Bourguiba offered the 3,500 top French officials and technicians pay and privileges far above that of their Tunisian counterparts. Less than one-third accepted. With...
...exodus of 100,000 Frenchmen from Morocco and Tunisia is nothing to the problem that will be presented, both to the North Africa they leave and the France they descend on, if the Frenchmen in Algeria-one million strong-de-cide to evacuate North Africa. So far less than 1% have returned to France: the battle of Algeria is still joined, and the French are stubbornly sticking...
Dutourd soon found himself imprisoned in a vast aircraft hangar, along with 8,000 other Frenchmen who lolled about admiring the conquering Germans for their elegance, and green with envy of their boots. (In a devastating aside, Dutourd suggests that the money poured into the Maginot Line might better have been spent on boots for the French army.) It was assumed that the war was nearly over, that the Germans would send the prisoners home on free railroad passes. But Dutourd got away. He carries modesty about his three-year stint with the Resistance to the point of devoting half...