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...German Kehl as part of Strasbourg, which is on the west side of the Rhine. When the Germans retreated, the French moved in, cheerfully accepting the Nazi consolidation. They ordered Kehl's 12,000 Germans, who had already been evacuated by the Nazis, to stay out so that Frenchmen in bombed-out Strasbourg could live in Kehl. At first the French strung barbed wire around Kehl and made as if to annex it permanently as a sort of French beachhead on the east bank of the Rhine. But in 1949, in talks in Washington, the French agreed to return...
...Moscow kept its promise to release British and French civilians interned in North Korea since the Communist capture of Seoul in 1950. Fourteen Frenchmen, including two diplomats, one newsman and five nuns, were en route from Moscow on their way home to France. Six Britons and an Irish priest were "in process of repatriation...
When the presidential plane Columbine landed at Washington last week, the distinguished Frenchmen aboard were far from happy. Premier René Mayer had started the week by threatening to resign, a tactic that persuaded the French Assembly into accepting a new $220 million emergency loan. This delayed the start from Paris, and the plane's pilot had flown through a storm instead of circling it in order to make connections with the Columbine in New York...
...Mayer & Co. stepped off the plane, they were weary and still queasy with airsickness. Their reception was heartening. Vice President Nixon gave a warm welcome speech, and by the time John Foster Dulles spoke feelingly of "the France we love and are proud to acclaim as our ally," the Frenchmen were all smiles...
...French politicians seemed painfully, even resentfully, aware that the U.S. expected France to ratify the compact it had initiated and initialed. They could think of all kinds of reasons why not to ratify: the plan was undesirably complex; why put Frenchmen side by side with German soldiers...