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...many G.I.s, who swaggered about as though they were conquerors-and irresistible conquerors to boot. "They have merely taken the place of the Germans," was a common French pronouncement. Many troops being redeployed from Germany arrived with a German-inspired hatred of the French. In Le Havre, where some Frenchmen began carrying truncheons at night to protect their wives and sisters from G.I. insults, a young French girl complained: "I do not know why all Americans think that all French girls will make love to anybody. I think Americans can be nice if they don't drink. But when...
...young French poet and schoolmaster named Joseph Bédier decided, some 50 years ago, to examine all the thousands of variations on the theme and piece them together into an "authentic" version. After years of toil the Bédier Tristan was published in Paris in 1900; grateful Frenchmen gave Author Bédier a seat in the French Academy and bought 300 editions of his book. Last month Pantheon Books published the first complete English edition of Bédier's work, brilliantly translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, illustrated by Joet Nicolas...
...that the system was not working: "It might be said that we were wrong to develop zones. . . . Probably . . . it would have been better if we had not done it." He reported that some 15 million German "displaced persons" were being chivied back & forth across Europe; that some ten million Frenchmen, Italians and others were also waiting to go home. Telling of how he watched the misery-laden procession of refugees in Berlin, he said: "I felt, my God, that is the price of man's stupidity. ... It was the most awful sight...
...Fourth Republic was born. Some 24,000,000 Frenchmen and Frenchwomen trooped to their country's first free election since 1936. By a resounding majority they chose a Constituent Assembly by the Left, ordered it to frame a new Constitution, approved a strong executive interim government...
...native Annamites, having tasted a puppet independence, thirsted for more. In the forlorn hope of escaping renewed colonial rule, they went on a rousing rampage. In Saigon they shot up homes, burned the market, seized Frenchmen as hostages. On roads out of town, they ambushed every foreign party that came along. An American OSS officer, Lieut. Colonel A. Peter Dewey, was shot dead (the Annamites mistook his jeep for a French car), another U.S. officer was wounded in a hell-for-leather battle...