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...official rounds last week, Pierre Mendès-France was greeted everywhere by swarms of curious, often applauding Washingtonians, eager for a glimpse or a snapshot of the most-discussed, most controversial Frenchman since General Charles de Gaulle. Mendès-France had been characterized variously as a fickle Gallic opportunist and as a pin-striped Savonarola who preached hard truths. Preparing to return to France this week, the brisk little Premier had not settled that argument. Administration officials were impressed-but they still had reservations about Pierre Mendès-France...
Fanny (book by S. N. Behrman & Joshua Logan, based on a trilogy by Marcel Pagnol; music and lyrics by Harold Rome) might have come off far better had it been done on a shoestring. For its very Gallic story of the Marseille waterfront-of a young girl who finds herself pregnant after her sea-crazed lover sails away, and of her marriage to a widower who loves her and craves a child-is a ticklish compound of sentiment and hard sense, of ruefulness and worldliness, that requires delicately simple treatment. As a play enfolded in music, it could be both...
...Ivory Coast banana planter, had to prepare food and lodging for no competitors, plus an army of 1,400 managers, trainers, handlers, masseurs, timekeepers, mechanics and assorted camp followers. Bawling, cursing and exhorting, Wermelinger careened across France, waging a one-man war to bring temporary order out of wild, Gallic confusion...
...trick will be to find something the French Assembly will accept and other member nations of EDC will not reject. Possible Gallic compromise: ratify the EDC treaty, but with two reservations in added protocols-that "unanimity of vote" should be required for the first five years (thus giving France a veto on any action it dislikes) and an escape clause allowing France to get out after ten years. At least Mendès is the first French Premier to set a deadline on submitting the EDC proposals to the Assembly for a yes or no vote...
...Plaisir (Max Ophuls; Mayer-Kingsley) is a Gallic study of pleasure seen through the magnifying lens of three short stories by Guy de Maupassant...