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...crisis in North Africa not only led France to pull out of Germany the troops pledged to NATO, but compelled it to send Frenchmen to put out the fire. Recently France pulled out some of her crack First Army regiments, replacing them with the first of some 2,000 Moroccan troops...
...both Moroccos are one country under the Sultan, and Spain has always resented that she holds her zone only as a sort of sublet from the French. If it were not for those nasty French, the Spanish implied broadly, they would give the Moroccans all their hearts desired. While Frenchmen lived in terror of nationalist bombs across the border, Spaniards basked in the sunshine of nationalist favor...
...Orly Airport last week, a bulletin board flashed departures to every corner of the globe-Casablanca, Mexico City, Prague, London, New York, Stockholm, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Tokyo. All planes bore the winged sea-horse insigne of Air France, Europe's biggest and the world's longest airline. Frenchmen could claim with pride that it is also one of the world's most modern. Last week France's international airline was betting some $143 million on a new jet fleet, the biggest outside the U.S. On order were twelve French-built twin-jet Caravelle transports for European...
...that he was politically indifferent: he was if anything too insistent on disagreeing with his neighbors. And in this he was helped by that old political nostrum, proportional representation, which encourages as many parties as there are disagreements. Proportional representation, and the resulting multiplicity of parties, registered accurately Frenchmen's differences and their deep distrust of one another. But it failed in the primary object of the democratic process-discovering areas of agreement...
...hopelessly divided, vote their immediate dissolution, and go back to the country for new elections. "But this," as the London Economist pointed out, "would require an improbable degree of self-abnegation"-and unless this divided Assembly could first agree on some useful set of electoral reforms, 22 million Frenchmen would in all likelihood only say again what they said last week...