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...Bastille Day (July 14) the French Government made a revolutionary announcement: the guillotine, which like military conscription, is one of the fruits of the French Revolution, is about to go the way of the auto-da-fe as an instrument of human justice. Henceforth condemned Frenchmen will not have to lie down and bare their necks to the falling knife; they may, as soon as transportation and the French electric-power shortage permit, sit down in a shiny new, U.S.-made electric chair...
...Polo Shirts. Now the carpets in Prince Louis's Casino were threadbare. Only two gambling rooms were open, for chance's devotees had shrunk to a handful of shabby Frenchmen and Spaniards, a Greek, a Turk. Some of the players-oh, calamity-wore polo shirts. One wrinkled woman, 92, still wagered 50-franc chips as she had done daily for a quarter century. Others jotted down numbers in notebooks. These were the survivors...
...born annually during the occupation are believed to have been German-sired. Despite these contributions, the French birth rate, already low before the war, ran consistently behind the death rate. In six years (1936-42), France's population dropped 4,000,000. The return of 2,000,000 Frenchmen from German prison camps and slave labor battalions, now under way, will be a step in the right direction, but probably not enough of one. For many of these men have been so weakened by undernourishment and ill treatment that they have temporarily lost either the desire or the capacity...
Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant were on edge. At a soccer game in Hama an Arab crowd began yelling "Pas de goal" ("Block that kick"). Sensitive Frenchmen thought they heard "A has De Gaulle" ("Down with De Gaulle"). That did it. Rioting spread from Hama to Horns and then to Damascus. The wild Djebel Druse country rose. Last week the trouble between Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant (TIME, June 4) suddenly became the world's trouble...
...handsome face beamed, Roget angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...