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Deploring the "cold war" at an Anglo-American Press Association lunch, M. Auriol called it la guerre perlee. Since the '20s, Frenchmen have referred to a slowdown strike as une greve perlee (literally, a drop-by-drop strike). Thus, la guerre perlee means the "drop-by-drop war." Connoisseurs predicted that the French press would snap...
Brazilians are the world's most Godfearing people; Frenchmen the least. The U.S. has only a few more atheists and agnostics than Australia or Canada. These too-sweeping generalities might have been deduced last week from a Gallup poll...
...Lorent's story clearly exemplifies what had been in the mind of most Frenchmen in recent years. Like Abbé Lorent, they had hoped they would be able to collaborate with Communists in the national task of putting France on her feet again, only to realize gradually that every effort to get along with them was doomed to failure...
...Paris, Miss Paris of 1947 - a leggy actress named Kay Trevil - declared that Americans had "more character" than Frenchmen, said she would sail for the U.S. this week to marry the credit manager of a clothing store in Columbus, Ohio...
...Russian Communism was nowhere more evident than in France. Russia had accepted the U.S. political challenge by ordering its French followers to revolutionary violence. The violence had failed of its purpose. Once forced into the open as a tool of Moscow, Communism had lost much of its appeal to Frenchmen (see FOREIGN NEWS...