Word: frenchmen
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...people who assume a vague, emotional attitude toward world problems; they oppose war as a matter of general principle, they are interested in Communist Russia and in American socialism, they have an ignorant faith in the League of Nations as a political cure-all and they insist eloquently that Frenchmen and Germans are every bit as good as they are. The danger is that these people set up an ideal of an International Man, whom they confuse with a cosmopolite, whose mecca is Geneva, but who has not reality or force because he has no roots in a national tradition...
...answers are that the U. S. citizens, Britons and even Frenchmen invested their billions in Germany because the world's best brains agree that the Fatherland was not and is not now threatened by invasion...
...Many of those [Frenchmen] who did demand cash " said M. Germain-Martin, "gave as their reason that they 'fear an imminent...
...Mother." In the mountain of royal baggage, unseen by Annamites, were 7,000 phonograph records, a French-English-Italian library, ten ping-pong sets and a hundred dozen ping-pong balls. Not for nothing has 19-year-old Emperor Bao Dai spent half his life in Paris, coached by Frenchmen to rule Annam as France directs. On his return to Hue the perfectly drilled Emperor replied in rapid, flawless French to greetings voiced by the real ruler of French Indo-China, white-whiskered, punctilious Governor General Pierre Pasquier...
...finals when Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin had Henri Cochet and his 18-year-old partner, Marcel Bernard, two sets down and 2-0 in the third. Bernard went over to speak to Cochet. He seemed to be apologizing for his errors, promising to do better. Cochet smiled and the Frenchmen, piling up points as Bell & Mangin tired, won in five sets 1-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. The match put them in the semi-finals against Ellsworth Vines & Keith Gledhill, Vines's best friend who he thinks should have been on the Davis Cup team...