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Despite these measures millions of Frenchmen found themselves without baguettes. In desperation some turned to their grocery stores, distastefully buying packages of biscotte, square slices of Zwieback. Others resorted to stronger action. In Paris irate customers heaved bricks through bakeshop windows. In the town of Cauterets in the Pyrenees Mayor Charles Fourtine, despondent over the insults hurled at him by angry citizens who felt that it was up to him to keep the town adequately supplied with bread, climbed a power pylon and killed himself by grasping a 100,000-volt high-tension wire...
...even in its pre-Nasser heyday, when shares reached $355 (in 1954), had the Canal Company inspired such excitement. Its stock was always the kind of security that Frenchmen, who own 45% of the shares, put away for old age; the British government, which originally called the project a "bubble scheme" for "gullible capitalists," later bought 44% of the shares for ?4,000,000, has netted a handsome 26%-a-year return on its original investment...
Vichy is the place where Frenchmen take the waters by day, and by night listen to speeches designed to soothe their pride as exponents of the glory of France and its civilizing mission. Many are colonists from North Africa, and last week they packed the Hall of Spectacles, confident of hearing a soothing speech from Marshal Alphonse Juin...
...gave his blessings to the plan of Socialist Guy Mollet's government to set up "a constitutional and elective regime" that would provide for what Juin called "the necessary application of brakes" against any attempt by a Moslem-dominated regime to violate the "rights of the minority," i.e., Frenchmen. Like other converts, Juin went further: "I hope that such a statute will be presented to the French-Moslem community without waiting for valid representatives to be designated by free elections." The words free elections would make him laugh, he said, "if circumstances were not so painfully dramatic...
...Ahead for France?", he said that France's loss of Algeria would mean great disadvantages for the Moslems there, who have achieved civil liberties during the French regime. In answer to a question from the floor, d'Arvisenet denied that the French want to make the Algerians into Frenchmen...