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...Stars. First guiding spirit of the Mission de Paris was the late Abbe Henri Godin, a shy, intense parish priest who decided that a pastor was virtually helpless in reaching those who did not come to church. He proposed that the church set up a mission to work among Frenchmen with the same dedicated zeal that sends missionaries to spend their lives in hardship in heathen lands. Paris' late Cardinal Suhard and the French archbishops set up the Mission de France in 1941; the Mission de Paris was founded...
...Many Frenchmen were offended by this Russian diplomatic action on Indo-China; more would be shocked when the French Communists showed their hand in sabotage of the military aid program. French Communist leaders understood this and moved with misgiving to carry out Moscow's orders. Last month Communist Jacques Duclos said to a nonCommunist: "If we concentrate all our efforts on the problem of low wages and high living costs, in nine months we shall have on our side the whole working class and a good slice of the petite bourgeoisie...
...splitting began in the days of the German occupation when Frenchmen, brooding over their surrender, began to wonder just how good their education was. Napoleon's laws setting up the public lycées, passed in 1806, still stood. But since then a hodgepodge of other schools had mushroomed about the original system. For the most part, the children of laborers and farmers rarely got as far as the lycees. Those who did, some Frenchmen began to think, received such an overintellectualized brand of instruction that they emerged unfit for the day-today lives that most of them would...
...called an "advertising strike." It was supposed to advertise French organized labor, whose power had seriously declined in the past year, chiefly because most Frenchmen were disgusted by Communist-provoked strikes. Union-membership had dropped off 30% in two years...
...European union, attacked the Western foreign ministers for not doing a better job of bringing about a French-German understanding (see INTERNATIONAL). When a newsman asked him about L'Epoque's story, De Gaulle said noncommittally: "I don't sign any protocols; I invite all Frenchmen, regardless of rank and creed, to rally around me in the best interests of the nation...