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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...