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...Frenchmen call the National Assembly building "The House Without Windows." Inside its sooty, neo-Grecian walls last week, it was as if the outside events of the past three months had never happened...
...Indo-China, but it might have been anything else that came to hand. In Parliament his majority was decreasing and his enemies increasing. From Gaullists to Socialists, the National Assembly took up the cry that the government plans to abandon what remains of French interests in Indo-China. Frenchmen, though they had almost unanimously supported him when he made the deal at Geneva, now show signs of reviling Mendès for his Indo-China "sellout," and for the fact that 21,000 French war prisoners are still in Communist hands...
...proclaimed, but only subject to Ho's "sovereignty and legislation." French products could be "freely" sold, but Ho's government orders "must be executed first." French businessmen could "freely" send profits abroad, but the percentages and other such details would be worked out later "by common agreement." Frenchmen themselves could only move in and out of the country "within the framework" of Ho's Communist laws. Sainteny apparently thought that the deal would guarantee security to French businessmen who chose to stay in Hanoi, but the businessmen were not so naive. Few rose to the bait...
French agriculture lags behind. Surrounded by protective tariffs, quotas and subsidies, French farmers are indulging in the luxury of concentrating on crops with which France is surfeited (e.g., beet root and grapes), while avoiding the very foodstuffs (e.g., meat and butter) which Frenchmen need most and can least afford to buy. Still, most Frenchmen contrive to eat well, choosing to spend a large part of their income on food...
...find themselves meeting tougher European competition in their export markets. But it also meant a healthy decline in European dependence on U.S. aid (which had made much of the recovery possible). Western Europe's comeback also meant stronger allies and better markets. Most of all, it meant that Frenchmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Britons and Italians, who had gone without for so long, at last were coming closer to the good food, new clothes, shining cars and comforts that Americans take as a matter of course...