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...Western European defense; no NATO plans make any sense before it is clear what kind of government France will have after the elections (see INTERNATIONAL). The people who seemed least concerned with the crucial electoral battle were the French voters themselves. Throughout the country, mayors issued proclamations urging Frenchmen to vote. Said one: "You think that nothing will change . . . But you must vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fateful Elections | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...worried enough by the movement to put one of its best tacticians in charge of fighting it; for weeks, Red henchmen have broken up the movement's meetings, have sent one of its leaders to the hospital. Last week, as France's election campaign got under way (Frenchmen will elect a new Parliament June 17), the French Titoists announced that they would run candidates in 30 departments, held their first big rally. At the meeting in Paris' gaudy Salle Wagram Communists threw tear-gas bombs. Several people had to be carried from the hall. Said the Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Dissenters | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...eyed bride in Latin. Princess Regina glanced demurely at her mother, who nodded permission. "Volo" (I will), said Regina. After the ceremony, which included the reading of a special benediction from the Pope, the couple left and were greeted by shouts of "Long live the Emperor!" from crowds of Frenchmen and the Austrians who had traveled to France especially for the great occasion. "Long live the Republic!" shouted French students gathered near by, and a handful of eggs hurtled toward the royal company. One egg crashed and broke on Regina's silken train; Regina stared proudly ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King for Two Days | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...Vote for the Stupidest." Haunted by the fear of both Bonaparte and Bourbon restorations, the Frenchmen who reconstituted the Republic after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 reduced the powers of the President to almost honorary dimensions. Thereafter, the jealous deputies usually selected as President the kind of man who would not try to broaden the scope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Brave Old Wheelhorse | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...Empire Marshal put out from London to pick up war materials at French ports for hard-pressed French soldiers fighting Communists in Indo-China. At Dunkirk, Communist dockers refused to load the ship. Propaganda leaflets, mysteriously appearing in the crew's quarters, read: "Young Frenchmen are killed every day far from their homes and country in this criminal colonial war because American imperialists want to use Indo-China as a strong point against Free China and Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Education at Sea | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

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