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...underneath, forces of seismic change gathered strength. They were all the more eerie because most Frenchmen, exhausted by two titanic struggles in one lifetime, simply refused to face a third...
...Gaullist coup might be one way out. But, like a Communist coup, that would mean civil war, and millions of leftist Frenchmen would refuse to fight...
...Nations by adding to it an economic and social council. The League did not adopt this idea, but the United Nations did. An anti-Nazi, Auer lived in disguise in Hungary during the war. At last summer's Paris Peace Conference, at which he represented Hungary, so many Frenchmen came to greet him that other former enemy delegates were surprised to learn that he belonged on the losers' side of the table...
Alcoholic History. Le New York, as Frenchmen had called the prewar Herald Tribune, was always better to read about than to read. Its roster of alumni scans like a Who's Who of U.S. journalists abroad. The staff was an odd mixture of serious newsmen who liked to work in Paris and assorted spirits working briefly and indifferently for a grubstake. In the years between wars, young reporters jumped at the ill-paid chance to make the Herald part of their journalistic and alcoholic history...
France's most popular radio show is Music Hall de Paris. Last week, as they usually do, some 400 Frenchmen crowded into the 250-seat Rue Washington studio to watch the broadcast. They did not expect much. Every Frenchman knows that French radio is terrible (see cut). The only dependable thing about the 43 stations in Radio Diffusion Française is program quality. It is always poor...