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...19th postwar Premier, slipped in like a silent bystander, unable to speak English, unwilling to say much anyway-lest it offend those back home who were considering him as a candidate for France's next President. At his side was pale, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. The two Frenchmen mistrust each other; in fact, through the 18-hour flight from Paris, the Premier spoke not a word to the Foreign Minister. Neither was sure he would even be in office a month hence, when France gets a new President and a new government, nor could either say surely where...
...founded had just put out a supplement to its six-volume Larousse du XXe Siècle, and by doing so, it had brought up to date France's foremost dictionary-encyclopedia. Today the Larousse books are the final popular arbiters for French words: nine out of ten Frenchmen know them, and eight out of ten families own either the one-volume Petit Larousse (1,800 pages, 70,000 words and articles), the two-volume Nouveau Larousse Universel (2,176 pages, 138,423 words and articles), or the definitive dictionary itself with 6,500 pages and 236,000 words...
...anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, even those critical of Chiang, now talk about "U.S. double-faced diplomacy." One said that "Ike and Dulles have stepped right into Acheson's shoes." Though Secretary Dulles has bulled through a special $387 million grant to bolster anti-Communist resistance in Indo-China, Frenchmen frequently grumble: Why should we fight our Communists to a finish when you did not fight yours to a finish in Korea...
...Some Frenchmen wondered how works of so little worth could have got onto the Salon's distinguished walls. But those who had followed the Salon through half a century of success suspected that the organizers of this year's show, like those who put forward the "wild beasts" of 1905. were quite happy that a row had been kicked...
...Many Frenchmen although clamoring for peace realize that winning the war and controlling Indo-China are incompatible goals. A perilous drain of French resources has been the main result of prolonged warfare. Yet if the French withdraw their troops "because the natives have asked for independence and have not thrown their full effort into the war" they will deed the Communists a priceless chunk of real-estate, and endanger every free country in the Far East...