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...that few G.I.s in Germany were spending much time hating their former enemies. Some 34% of the newly arrived occupiers had a good word for the "Krauts"; 59% of those who had been there two months or longer thought they were O.K. When asked whom they liked best-Britons, Frenchmen or Germans-about half voted for the British, only 16% for the French; 23% favored the Germans. They found the Germans clean, friendly, and generally "like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Nice People? | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...railed against the Government. The gay, graceful days of Gallic joie de vivre seemed a thing of the past. A kind of national dissatisfaction gripped the French: thousands were talking of leaving for some happier land, and many actually applied for visas. In their physical misery and moral confusion Frenchmen no longer spoke of "la belle France"; now it was "pauvre France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Les Mis | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...dark mood was deepened by another politicians' "crisis." In the Constituent Assembly, leftists wrangled bitterly with President Charles de Gaulle. Le grand Charlie grandly insisted on a 125,000,000,000 franc ($1,050,400,000) military budget-55% more than the proposed expenditures for reconstruction. Few Frenchmen could believe that military needs were greater than civilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Les Mis | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...practical as well as spiritual: in France and Germany he took care to pick shining lights of the resistance. Outstanding selections: small, half-paralyzed Archbishop Jules-Géraud Saliege of Toulouse, who during France's occupation openly attacked German treatment of Jews and conscription of Frenchmen; massive, blue-blooded Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Munster, whose anti-Nazi sermons and pastorals nearly cost him his life; benign, bald Bishop Konrad von Preysing of Berlin, who, when the Nazis came into power, said publicly: "We have fallen into the hands of criminals and fools." Typical Spanish appointment: small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Roads to Rome | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...France's new Ministry of Population grappled with the problem of France's long-falling birth rate. Since 1939, France's population had dropped 1,250,000. If the birth rate continues to decline, 40,000,000 Frenchmen may dwindle to 22,000,000 by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Politics of Procreation | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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