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...deputy was all but unknown in the National Assembly; his party was one of the motley collection of center groups which produce the passing parade of French postwar governments. But his choked, emotional voice was, that day last week, the authentic voice of France. Divided on almost everything else, Frenchmen united in fear and hatred of Germany...
...Frenchmen who live in Tunisia and pluck its fruits have no desire whatever to cast off the protection of their home government. Their interests will forever clash with those of the 3,230,000 Tunisians among whom they live...
...compilation of all the knowledge that was available at the middle of the 18th century. To many a Frenchman it became the voice of Reason itself-a major intellectual weapon of the Revolution, one of the brightest ornaments of the Enlightenment, the foundation stone of the new secularism. Though Frenchmen have long since ceased to read it, they have never ceased to revere it. Last week they were expressing their reverence officially...
When, in December 1950, De Lattre was called upon to redeem French honor in the jungles of Indo-China, few Frenchmen had much faith in the "dirty little war." De Lattre went to Hanoi and faced the demoralized troops of France with fire in his eyes. "From now on," he told them, "you will be led!" Within 30 days, his refusal to admit defeat had turned the tide of battle...
...many shrugging Frenchmen are apt to regard such crises as merely a bad joke, and to say that the government runs itself without a Premier. But with the war hotting up in Indo-China, with a budget crisis at home, and with parliamentary decisions waiting to be made on NATO and the European Army, the pavane is in grave danger of becoming a danse macabre...