Word: frenchmens
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...encouraging notes about France's discouraging situation is the fact that some Frenchmen themselves are getting worried about things. Thundered the new conservative weekly, L'Express, edited by able young Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber...
...Equilibrium is not the same as health . . . The Spanish economy is in equilibrium, like the Italian economy, like that of Abyssinia . . . Most Frenchmen eat, bathe and warm themselves fairly well in the winter. But little by little, faster and faster, one sees the conditions in which they live becoming medieval in relation to those countries which have managed to stay in the race. Just as Spain has fallen by the wayside, France, if she doesn't wake up, will become the Spain of the second half of the century...
...plainly more prosperous in the U.S. than their French counterparts: in Pittsburgh, the Cossets met Patrick N. O'Connell, a rolling-mill foe man with a wife and eight children, who owns a station wagon, a TV set, his own home, gets no such "family allotment" as fecund Frenchmen get from a grateful government...
...most outstandingly decrepit item is the French tax system. Frenchmen pay taxes (33% of their gross national product, compared with 27% in the U.S.), but the tax load falls unfairly on consumers. An industrial worker with two children, earning $1.000 a year, pays 15% income tax (in the U.S. he would pay nothing). On the other hand, two million French farm families, one-third of the population, pay next to nothing. Politicians dare not anger them. Farm income is calculated on the basis of land values last assessed in 1908. Since then, prices have jumped 170 times...
Many responsible Frenchmen applaud this idea. U.S. aid, they say, merely postpones decisions that France must make herself. Yet a sudden stoppage of U.S. assistance could easily jeopardize the huge U.S. military investment in French bases and supply depots, stretching from the Channel to the Rhine. U.S. aid will probably be cut gradually, but cut it will...