Word: frenchmens
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Domingo assumes that everyone re members that in the fall of 1961, France was suffering one of its periodic nervous breakdowns. The French army had fought seven years to persuade Algerians that they were Frenchmen, while in Paris, 200,000 Algerians living in jerry-built Afro-Islamic Harlems were not allowed to be Parisians. For them the dirty work and a diet of boiled cabbage, of terror and reprisal, of po lice chasing Algerians into the Metro and beating them up underground, and of the noise of distant plastic bombs to make it all exciting...
...cried for explanations, Gaullist newspapers wondered innocently if the American CIA might not have pulled the whole operation in order to eliminate a leftist, and at the same time embarrass De Gaulle. The fact remains that four of the five persons so far in custody for the kidnaping are Frenchmen. That blatant bit of embarrassment must have struck someone in the Elysee Palace last week, for suddenly Paris began "wondering" if Ben Barka was really dead. After all, his body has yet to turn...
...baste René in an open letter. A sampling: "By what stretch of the imagination do you think that French cooking is the only cuisine in the world? It happens that a great many people throughout the country enjoy beets with vinegar sauce. It's about time you Frenchmen start to look around...
...Frenchmen whose names have not been accepted are legal nonpersons, cannot marry, vote or receive welfare payments. In the eyes of French law, six of the twelve children of Mireille and Jean-Jacques Manrot-le Goarnic do not exist-because their parents gave them the Breton names of Adraboran, Brann, Diwezha, Gwendall, Maiwenn and Sklerijenn. Papa Goarnic has fought the case for five years, carrying it even to the World Court, but has lost every round...
Europe of the Past. They were telling retorts, and they persuaded some important Frenchmen. Elder Statesman Vincent Auriol, 81, whom De Gaulle recently had flown to Paris in his presidential Caravelle for medical treatment after a fall, turned on his benefactor to endorse Mitterrand. Jean Monnet, architect of the Common Market, backed Mitterrand as well, because he found De Gaulle's idea of Europe the "Europe of centuries past, a rebirth of the nationalist spirit that has brought tragedy to France and Europe." Even De Gaulle's first-ballot, right-wing opponent, Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour, joined the other...