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...Finally, gloom was inspired by France, where, in theory at least, the government had fallen, evoking evil memories of the chaotic Fourth Republic. Yet the relentless logic of Charles de Gaulle suggested that he will win his presidential referendum (TIME. Sept. 21 ), and that, one way or another, he will probably survive the subsequent parliamentary elections. A French cartoonist caught the idea when he switched a famed line and had De Gaulle say: "After the deluge...
Cassandra may yet be proved right about many things: she has all too often been right before. Still, gloom is not necessarily foresight, and pessimism is not the same as logic...
There are 10,000 U.S. military "advisers" in South Viet Nam and, it some times seems, as many correspondents. The war they report consists mostly of grim, isolated jungle skirmishes; as for the big picture, they usually color it gloomy. But in recent months the gloom has been a few shades lighter, and at times hope has broken through. Last week, before the National Assembly in Saigon, President Ngo Dinh Diem announced: "We are recovering the initiative, even during the rainy season, which heretofore the enemy has considered favorable to him. Victory is not only sure but imminent." Among...
...critical run on Canada's foreign-exchange reserves until the election was safely over, indicted the government's tight-money austerity program as the wrong cure for the country's economic ailments. Diefenbaker retorted by disclosing ordinarily secret foreign-exchange figures to argue that Liberal "gloom and doom" crying had worsened the run on the Canadian dollar, and that in fact he had hidden nothing...
...Catholics would attend as observers rather than participants. Lately some U.S. archbishops added to the gloom by telling their laymen not to expect too much from Vatican II, and last week the warning was echoed by a veteran of many ecclesiastical gatherings. Speaking at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Lord Fisher of Lambeth, the retired Archbishop of Canterbury, noted: "It is always unwise to expect too much from councils...