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Only France and South Africa held back. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault merely said France was "prepared to study" trusteeship terms for her slices of Togoland and the Cameroons (rubber, cocoa, palm oil). With Gallic eloquence, he painted a picture of French colonial idealism and native happiness that was somewhat at variance with the facts. Forced labor and high taxes actually caused natives to flee by tens of thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Shifting Sands | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...that was caustic, suspicious and envious in the French character welled up. People hated the ubiquitous black marketeers, sneered at their nouveau riche manners. They railed against the Government. The gay, graceful days of Gallic joie de vivre seemed a thing of the past. A kind of national dissatisfaction gripped the French: thousands were talking of leaving for some happier land, and many actually applied for visas. In their physical misery and moral confusion Frenchmen no longer spoke of "la belle France"; now it was "pauvre France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Les Mis | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...French Empire shrank slightly last week. With Gallic grace, France agreed to step out of Syria and the Lebanon-and the Near East. Thus an imperial association which lasted for a generation came, at least temporarily, to a close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEAR EAST: Brief Era | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...aides cornered the dwindling London rice stocks), his fine Greek cigarets, the quantities of boiling Turkish coffee he consumed. He rode majestically through London's streets in a Rolls-Royce provided by the British Government. Finally, again by air, he had flown off to Paris and a royal Gallic welcome. Then, tired and rather wan, he had once more stepped into a plane and returned to Athens and his troubled people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: If We Hold Fast . . . | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

French Academician Andre Siegfried, author, economist and world traveler, after 50 years of reading U.S. newspapers, paid them a Gallic compliment. The U.S. press, said he, "has reached maturity but without having lost its youth. Especially it has preserved its real genius, which is that of a reporter. It is interested in everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Yes--But | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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