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...Arroyo. As the day darkened, the sky a shroud of smoke, the Nationalists concentrated four battalions and 18 armored cars against the sandbagged Binh Xuyen strongpoints. In the European quarter, French colonials and a few Americans sipped apéritifs on balconies and watched the distant show-most Frenchmen rooting for the terrorists and most Americans for Ngo Dinh Diem. Soon the news looked bad for the French: the young Nationalists, it seemed, were fighting with efficiency and fervor. During the night the Nationalists attacked and knocked out half a dozen Binh Xuyen strongpoints, one after the other. Paratroopers stormed...
FRENCH ECONOMIC GAINS are pushing the Paris stock market ahead at an even faster clip than the U.S. bull market, largely because Frenchmen who once sent their funds abroad are now investing at home. Stocks on the Paris Bourse are 240% above the 1949 average, with a $2.3 billion gain since 1952; the averages climbed by 60% last year alone, have soared another 22% in 1955's first four months...
...lobbyists, led by one of Tunisia's two Senators, Antoine Colonna, held a press conference crackling with angry voltage. Dr. Jean Tremsal, top municipal officer of Tunis, declared: "Frenchmen in Tunis do not recognize any agreements which dispose of their fate and their future and that of their children and grandchildren." Cried another lobbyist: "We cannot accept. We will defend ourselves, we will defend France in spite of herself...
...French Resident General will become a high commissioner, and will hand over control of police to Tunisians within two years (but in large towns one-third of the police will be Frenchmen...
...Camillo,* Italian Author Giovanni Guareschi's famed series of stories about the saintly deviltries of Village Priest Don Camillo in his running war with Communist Mayor Peppone. One reason for the book's popularity may be that, while to U.S. readers such shenanigans are amusingly exotic, to Frenchmen they are amusingly, and often disturbingly, familiar. There is, for instance, the case of the mayor, the priest and the hearse of Civrac. Scratches & Mildew. In 1935 Father Jean-Rene Lagrave came to the village of Civrac-en-Medoc (pop. 580) in southern France, and took up residence...