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...thousand legends and traditions, the French glory in a revolutionary past. Between bouts of rage, they are also a profoundly conservative people. Last week a decisive number of Frenchmen in Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic showed that they are not anxious to repeat their past right now. In elections for a new National Assembly, the French turned their backs on revolution, at least of the sort that France's young leftists and anarchists had in mind. Only a few short weeks ago, in early May, a revolt started among students at the Sorbonne and spread to workers...
...Gaulle or totalitarian Communism. "The danger is still there," warned Premier Georges Pompidou. "If the opportunity should present itself anew, the totalitarian party is ready to start again to seize power." Though this view was rejected by De Gaulle's opponents, it had an undisputed appeal to conservative Frenchmen, especially those in the provinces, who are shocked by the violence and economic paralysis that seized France-and suspicious of the Communists...
...last week in The Hague, agreed to provide that organization with $770 million. Meanwhile, the world money markets continued to show encouraging signs of greater stability, Although the price of gold jumped to a record high in Paris-where the government controls on the export of francs were causing Frenchmen to turn to bullion-free-market trading elsewhere remained relatively calm...
Many foreigners fear that U.S. violence is rapidly becoming almost banal, espoused by Maoists and Minutemen alike, routinely threatened-if not actually practiced-by students, racial militants and antiwar dissenters. Such fears sound odd coming from, say, the impeccably rational Frenchmen who only recently applauded student anarchists in Paris. Even so, the U.S. is undeniably starting to lead all advanced Western countries in what Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal calls "the politics of assassination." No French President has been murdered since 1932; West German leaders go virtually unguarded; the last (and only) assassination of a British Prime Minister occurred...
...history have mankind's conflicts seemed quite so hard to resolve. Vast social changes are causing almost daily clashes that defy law and logic; from courts to legislatures, the old peace-keeping institutions are too often archaic and unresponsive. Blacks and whites, Arabs and Israelis, students and administrators, Frenchmen and Charles de Gaulle-all seem pitted against one another in postures of unmalleable pride...