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...premier who has followed a policy based on a broad conception of his country's national interest. Too much has been made of the "irrational nationalism" which buried E.D.C. Few people in this country are aware of the reasoned debate which filled the French press for two years. Even Frenchmen who favored E.D.C. pointed out, time after time, that only with U.S. and British supporting guarantees could France be assured it would not be swamped in a Little Europe dominated by expanding West Germany. The guarantees were not forthcoming...
Priority No. 1. Wrest away from the Communist Party the grip it holds today on 5,000,000 Frenchmen by giving back to the French people the long-forgotten feeling of social and material progress; in other words, by restoring hope...
...mired today where it stood in 1929. In a generation, our country has made no progress. We are the only nation in the Western world to present such a sorry balance sheet. Out of this situation French Communist propaganda easily derived its main strength. In the eyes of many Frenchmen, the Communists were the only ones who talked about progress. The fact that the new government has registered a real impact on the nation has already thrown confusion into the Communist ranks. The bosses of the Communist machine in Paris are deeply disturbed. They sent emissaries to several provinces with...
Mendès-France should order the government radio to explain to Frenchmen that the irritation our Western partners feel toward us is understandable. He should announce as soon as possible what his alternative solution is to the German rearmament. The Premier should say that the majority which rejected EDC is not "his" majority and that his real majority will soon be composed, not of Communists, neutralists or false nationalists, but of those loyal to European and Atlantic solidarity, who by mischance, on the EDC issue, find themselves dispersed between the two camps...
Blaze of the Sun, by Jean Hougron (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If all the Frenchmen in Indo-China behaved more or less like the ones in this novel, no wonder they lost the war. Amid all the offensives and ambushes, Novelist Hougron's characters worry chiefly about who goes to bed with whom-or more particularly, with My-Diem, a shapely Annamite who used to be a Communist agent, married a French colonial official and, before the book is over, earns herself one of the hottest spots in the Buddhist hell by committing adultery with yet another Frenchman. Along...