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schuman originally intended to have only France and Germany in the project. He thought that the high authority would be able to keep Germany and her industry in line and, at the same time, strengthen ties between the Germans and the western nations. Frenchmen themselves objected to this, feeling that, in an economic union of two countries, France would always be a junior member. France then asked other nations to join the program...
Last September he founded Paix et Liberté (Peace and Freedom), an organization dedicated to the single task of fighting Communist lies. Said David: "All Frenchmen know that for the last four years their country has been submitted to a gigantic offensive designated to pave the way for their conquest and enslavement. Frenchmen know that all means are used . . . and first of all the lie ... This is what we are here to expose...
...General Alphonse Juin and Minister for Indo-China Jean Letourneau landed at Hanoi's Gialam airfield after the long flight from Paris, a welcoming band struck up the Marseillaise and the Thanly-Nien Hanh Khuc (the Vietnamese anthem, March of Youth). Then the two Frenchmen hurried away from martial music to study the martial setback suffered by France in northern Indo-China...
...Blundering" British. In Napoleon's view, of course, it was the "logic" of France's condition, not his own ambition, that made him a dictator. "Lamentable weakness" on the part of their rulers had filled Frenchmen with such profound "uneasiness" that they inevitably picked him as the man who could "save [society] from destruction." The best chapter in the Memoirs is devoted to the cunning, diplomacy and brute force employed by Napoleon in making quite sure that the inevitable occurred...
...balcony in Breslau and ate a mess of boiled potatoes in public, to prove to his Prussians that they were not poisonous. At the French court, Marie Antoinette, in the best 20th Century pressagent style, attended a potato banquet with potato blossoms decking her hair, to get Frenchmen to eat potatoes...