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...only way to hike Ruhr production--which has nonetheless been rising steadily all along. Supporters of the official position minimize French fears as historical nervousness that is now outdated. The unofficial aim is directly at Russia: anything that will jazz up Ruhr output is desirable, even if it alienates Frenchmen and all those who remember the terrible years when the foundations of German tyranny in Europe were the factories of the Ruhr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reversal On The Ruhr | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

Forty Million Frenchmen. These were arrogant, offensive and injurious words. The point, however, was that Charles de Gaulle spoke for virtually 40 million Frenchmen. Not since the war had there been such a unanimous upsurge of French resentment-from extreme left to extreme right-against the U.S. and Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Brutal Rebuff | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...French Foreign Office spokesman blasted Law 75 as a fait accompli and "a brutal rebuff." Foreign Minister Schuman, who has much more understanding of the Anglo-U.S. position than most Frenchmen have, called in the British and U.S. ambassadors, handed them a protest. In Washington, French Ambassador Henri Bonnet protested to Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett. The French got a promise that the Clay-Robertson action would be immediately reviewed by Washington and London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Brutal Rebuff | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Frenchmen, Charles Boyer and Jean-Paul Sartre, whose particular dramatic talents this reviewer has previously regarded with skepticism, have not only redeemed themselves in "Red Gloves," but have brought to Boston the best new drama since Mr. Williams' "Streetear" of last year. "Red Gloves" is a generally well-written and always engrossing play that for the first time shows Mr. Boyer to be an actor of considerable abilities...

Author: By George A. Lelper, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

...from Paris came a dialogue between two Frenchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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