Word: frenchmens
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...bugaboo of business control of newspapers is a real one in France. When some 60 dailies cluttered Paris kiosks in the 1920s, bankers and munitions makers kept newspapers like mistresses. By World War II, big business had a firm grip on the major Paris dailies. Afterward, millions of angry Frenchmen blamed business for the papers' sellout to collaborationists...
...press still commands little esteem from Frenchmen. By U.S. standards, most papers are typographically jumbled, abound in inaccurate and slanted, misleading stories. Foreign correspondents in Paris soon get over the shock of having officials suggest when information is unavailable: "Why don't you invent something...
...wounded, flew off to return with a new load. For five days last week the battle raged as French troops and paratroopers tried to root the rebels out of caves in the cliffs. At battle's end more than 100 jellaghas were dead. So were some 40 Frenchmen...
...French share in Indo-China was $1,100,00 a day; in Algeria France has no outside help, and costs run close to $1,700,000 a day. In Indo-China France fought with a professional army (Africans. German Legionnaires), of which less than 100,000 were Frenchmen, against a Viet Minh army operating, for the most part, out of clearly defined zones that could be attacked by tanks, artillery, and bombers. In Algeria twice as many French soldiers are engaged against rebels who fight in small bands of 50 or 100 that vanish under strong attack to fight again...
...months ago, Mollet might have sympathized with the words written by the left-wing editor Claude Bourdet in his weekly L'Observateur: "One hundred thousand young Frenchmen are threatened with being thrown into the 'dirty war' of Algeria, with losing the best years of their lives, perhaps with being wounded, indeed killed, for a cause few among them approve." But now, in a panicky gesture that reflects the government's skittishness, Editor Bourdet was unceremoniously arrested by Mollet's government, accused of spreading "demoralization...