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...They did not learn much . . . they did not feel there was much to be learned.... It never occurred to them that many Englishmen, Frenchmen and Germans soon came to look upon them as uncouth barbarians...
...Puzzled Frenchmen frowned. Editors scratched their chins. It made no historical sense, but one of the most important of U.S. Senators had obviously meant something by it. Several days later a girl reporter asked Vandenberg why he had called for revolution in France...
...service, nightclubs now got enough electricity to stay open till dawn, and the municipality of Nice grandly announced: "Our hotels are ready, our guests will lack neither bedsheets nor tablecloths." But about half of France's hotels were still closed, and many of the rest were filled with Frenchmen who wanted a vacation themselves. The beaches of Normandy and Brittany were still dotted with maverick German mines...
This scene itself also improves on Shakespeare. His Frenchmen, the night before their expected triumph, were shallow, frivolous and arrogant. By editing out a good deal of their foolishness, by flawless casting, directing and playing, and by a wonderfully paced appreciation of the dead hours of rural night, Olivier transforms the French into sleepy, overconfident, highly intelligent, highly sophisticated noblemen, subtly disunified, casually contemptuous of their Dauphin -an all but definitive embodiment of a civilization a little too ripe to survive...
...formed (stations in Paris and Le Havre) to entertain occupation forces, not Frenchmen. But there was nothing to keep Parisians and others from tuning into the recorded programs from America -Bob Hope, Fibber McGee, Fred Allen, etc., into Beaucoup de Mtisique, an hour-long afternoon jive session, or Midnight in Paris, a two-hour nightly dance program. Unlike dull, politicky French radio, which suspended afternoon broadcasts four days a week to cut costs, AFN had become as staple a fare as red wine. Gaston Deferre, French Under Secretary of Information, asked formally that the U.S. Army keep the network going...