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...Gaulle accused the U.S. of backing the Right by "creating the impression of a certain security" with the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic Treaty. "Thus, the effort which I-surrounded by resolute Frenchmen-have been leading since the war, to enable our country to find its unity at last and to put at its head a real government, has so far failed to achieve its aim. I recognize this without equivocation. One must fear that it is to the detriment of France...
Simplicity & Grandeur. Neither Right nor Left was ready to rejoice at the dissolution of the intransigent Gaullist party. Many Frenchmen share his criticism of impotent postwar French politics, though rejecting his drastic remedies. Said leftist Combat: "Whatever each of us may think about General de Gaulle, it is impossible to ignore the simplicity, even grandeur, with which he recognizes his failure." Said conservative Le Monde...
...most Frenchmen the prophecy was undeniably gloomy. De Gaulle might answer that the prophet Jeremiah, in whose lifetime the Scythians swept over most of the civilized world, was also accused of undue gloominess...
...equipment to Luang Prabang. Inside the Hanoi delta, Giap launched a surprise attack on Kien Airfield, clearly intending to delay air reinforcements to Laos. The Red guerrillas swarmed over the airfield, the finest in Indo-China and specially designed for jet aircraft, and dispersed the guard. They killed 20 Frenchmen, captured and executed Provincial Chief Trinh Nhu Tiep, burned the barracks, set off 3,000 tons of ammunition. A French counterattack killed 212 Viet Minh, captured 125, and regained control of Kien...
Half a world away, aroused Frenchmen still argued the case of Robert and Gerald Finaly. Both boys, sons of Jewish parents, had been baptized as Roman Catholics after their parents died in wartime concentration camps. Earlier this year they were spirited across the Spanish border by zealous Catholics to prevent their being returned, by a court order, to Jewish relatives (TIME, March 16). Moderate-minded Frenchmen hoped that the children could be put in the care of a theologically neutral group until a higher court rules on the appeal of their Catholic foster mother. Meanwhile, the Finaly family addressed...