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Said he: "The figure that France cuts in the world, because of ministerial instability, wounds and irritates Frenchmen. The Assembly can overthrow as many governments as it pleases without any other motive than the opportunity of its members to satisfy ambitions overstimulated by the very frequency of the crises." Added Reynaud with a bitter irony: "It's becoming a disgrace not to have been a minister just like everyone else...
...company in the film; it so happens that most oil companies are American, but your critic is not justified in saying that it stands for America. To us, here, it was just an unpleasant oil company. What should we say, then, when we see your movies, where all Frenchmen are ridiculous, and most French women are prostitutes...
...eloquence and intelligence. Many of its leaders are honored veterans of the French Resistance. Why are these courageous men unable, despite themselves, to give France a stable government? The answer is simple, but not helpful: France is deeply distrustful of a strong government. Too frequently and too recently, Frenchmen have had to man the barricades against oppression. Since 1789 France has lived under four republics, two emperors, one consulate, one directorate and three monarchies. In the France of the peasant and the petit bourgeois, where the bell jangles on the shop door as the customer enters, there is a deep...
...total result is that nothing much gets done. It reduces progressive Frenchmen to despair and to a cynical conviction that nothing can ever be done. But it suits provincial "static" France very well. And impatient critics who argue that all France needs is a good two-party system forget the bitter cleavages of French life. If France were divided now into a Left and Right Party, the Left would be dominated, in all probability, by the Communists. In French eyes, a multiparty system is exasperating, but safer...
...defendants now awaiting trial at the Paris Assizes this week, one has been in jail for 32 months; the average is 18 months. Even if the defendant is eventually acquitted, he has no redress, receives no compensation for his long imprisonment. Bail is almost unheard of; Frenchmen consider it an undemocratic favoring of the rich over the poor...