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...below). Glaring headlines and the wrench of huge casualty figures jolted the French public. Parisians by the thousands paid visits to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe, and tiny bunches of violets, bought for a few francs in honor of nameless fallen Frenchmen half a world away, were deposited alongside the big formal wreaths that are nearly always there...
...Test of Sincerity. For both Germans and Frenchmen, the Saar was a serious test of sincerity. In the course of three great wars between them, the Saar has changed hands four times. Its 1,000,000 sturdy coal miners, steelworkers and farmers speak and live as Germans, but since 1947, when the Allies linked the Saar's economy to that of France, the Saarlanders by their ballots have shown that they approve the 1947 arrangement...
After hearing the evidence, the court threw out the libel suit, ruled that the charges against L'Humanité "are likely to be true." Added L'Aurore last week: "Such a judgment should open the eyes of those Frenchmen . . . who think that . . . the Communists have the interests of France at heart just like anyone else...
...such public works as 900 health institutions, 12,600 schools. The French reduced infant mortality by 50%; they built 13,800 miles of improved roads, railroads and canals; their irrigation projects brought 13 million more acres under cultivation. But the French were not wanted back. Frenchmen had made a lot of money out of Indo-China. and their administrators were often disliked. They had been discredited by the easy Japanese conquest. Like most South Asians, the Indo-Chinese simply wanted their independence. French General Jacques Leclerc had to fight to clear nationalist guerrillas from the capital, Saigon...
...Cost: French expeditionary forces: 34,600 killed and missing (including 16,500 Frenchmen), 34,500 wounded. Indo-Chinese nationalists: 31,900 killed, 24,500 wounded. The Communists: 222,000 killed, 230,000 captured. More than 2,000,000 Indo-Chinese civilians are homeless...