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...asked troubled Frenchmen...
Part of the French disillusionment reflects itself in the extreme elevation of money to the position of the most worthwhile and therefore the most desired object in and possession of life. Many Frenchmen openly admit that money is the only thing in life they have an interest in now. A dollar now brings a top price of 185 francs. The foreign visitor to France must trade his money illegally to live; it is not a matter of making a profit at the expense of the French--the opposite is more likely...
...Challenge. On the contrary, Stowe goes on, many of the G.I.s abroad exhibited to Frenchmen, Chinese and other foreigners a kind of bully-boy arrogance which was scarcely surpassed by that of Soviet troops on the rampage after V-E day. He relates it to traditional U.S. treatment of Negroes, Catholics, Jews and foreigners at home. Russia's Communist challenge is real enough, says Author Stowe. But it will never be met, he insists, merely by calling Stalin names or by deploring the contradictions in the Soviet system...
Meanwhile, the Fourth Republic's highest criminal court would remain suspended until either the comrades backed down, or the National Assembly set up a new judicial procedure. All but the leftist newspapers cried out in disgust. Said Combat, for a majority of Frenchmen: "The Communists do not want justice but a strictly political jurisdiction. In the eyes of the world [they] have scuttled French justice more effectively than the admirals sank our fleet at Toulon...
...French life delight the eye, make no demands on the mind. Having neither the audacity of Matisse nor the intellectuality of Picasso, he turns constantly to the commonplace: simple cottage interiors, village streets, somnolent nudes, bowls of fruit or fish, all as familiar and soothing to his fellow Frenchmen as old bed slippers and good wine...