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...Frenchmen, preoccupied with day-to-day living, ignored the great philosophic questions to which their fathers contributed so much. Britain was even more obsessed with shortages; TIME'S London Bureau last week cabled: "Britain's net situation is as nearly hopeless as any undestroyed and undefeated nation's can be." The U.S., a powerhouse of farm and factory production, had reluctantly assumed the political leadership of the West. Its steps were uncertain, its destiny only dimly understood by its own restless people...
Anti-Existentialist. Like many other Frenchmen, Sébille was "profoundly disturbed" by the moral decay and physical degeneration of French youth. The present was empty and the future bleak. This state of mind was played upon by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Sébille, who is a jolly fellow beneath his solemn surface, reacted sharply against that philosophy of despair. What was "lost in the smoke of the past," he reasoned, had to be "recouped in the fire of the present...
...Heart was grown in the same fertile Tin Pan Alley patch as Dardanella, Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, Blue Is the Night, Ireland Must Be Heaven, and Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine. But Peg O' My Heart grew more slowly than Fred Fisher's other hits, did not reach full bloom until the doughboys came home whistling...
...intimation that the U.S. was at last going to seek "a cure rather than a ... palliative" for Europe's troubles was the best news since the Allies landed in Normandy. It mattered little that le plan Marshall was vague."Today there is something new in the lives of Frenchmen," breathed President of the Republic Vincent Auriol...
Beyond the laurel bushes Paris buzzed with approval. Realistic Frenchmen rejoiced especially that le plan Marshall seemed to have a grain of candid U.S. self-interest. The liberal daily Combat was glad that "it is not because of Europe's beautiful eyes that America wishes to help...