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...past, even enlightened Frenchmen like Schuman, who do not overestimate the boche bogey, had been reluctant about Franco-German economic integration because they were afraid that, without the British in on the deal to help outbalance German productive capacity, French industry would be swamped by Germany. But the French government had overcome this fear. Said one French diplomat last week: "In 1936, when Hitler occupied the Rhineland, we refrained from moving in because the British wouldn't come with us. Afterwards, the British told us, 'If you had marched, we should have been obliged to come with...
...opponents, the cops. One camera caught cop and Commie in a balletlike tableau (see cut) which suggested a title-The Afternoon of a Gendarme. French ports were tense as Communists still tried to whip up the dockers to strike ships bearing U.S. aid to France. On the whole, however, Frenchmen last week were as lighthearted as men may be who live with no more in the backs of their minds than an unstable government at home, a half-barbarian horde of Russians near by and an atomic war on the horizon...
Coke on the Kiosks Sir: Cheers for that tasty epic, "The Pause That Arouses" [TIME, March 13]. At least five Frenchmen can laugh down the squeaks of those Moscow-suckled shoats against "Bottled American Imperialism." Coca-Cola won their approval on its own grounds! GUY DESSAULLES Pans, France...
Understandably, the French fear a rearmed Germany. But no French politician in power has the nerve to tell the French people what their real choices are: 1) let the Germans arm themselves for defense against the Russians; 2) let the Germans sit home while Frenchmen and their allies cross Western Germany and defend it from the Russians; or, 3) let the Russians take West Germany and add its strength to their...
Other smug but nonpartisan Frenchmen took up this battle cry. "I like Coca-Cola," wrote a M. Dreyfus to the Paris Herald, "but [Coca-Cola's advertising] has ripped deep into what the French treasure most-their language. One now sees posters and trucks bearing the inscription 'Buvez Coca-Cola.' You can say 'Buvez du Coca-Cola' or 'Buvez le Coca-Cola' but you cannot say 'Buvez Coca-Cola' because this is pidgin French...