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Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil was a leading member of France's financial aristocracy. He was also a devious politician who was pro-Fascist before the war, but later, as a top adviser of General Giraud, helped arrange for the Allied landings in North Africa. In hate-filled Morocco, where his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: The Dangerous Middle | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

The political earthquake that shook Brazil a fortnight ago (TIME. April 18) subsided last week. The process of reshuffling the Cabinet continued, but President Joâo Café Filho calmly went ahead with his plans to fly from Rio this week on a nine-day trip to Portugal, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: After the Earthquake | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Tory Democracy. Reluctant to risk his premiership so soon after waiting for it so long, Eden was nonetheless reported sympathetic to a quick election, possibly May 26 or June 16. Before then, he hopes, the new Cabinet will dig itself in and prove its competence. There will be no dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Changing of the Guard | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Also a Five-Ton Truck. An outspoken, hardheaded Alsatian who fought as a private in the French army in World War II, Father Bureth was first assigned to Brazzaville in 1945, was back in France within a few months with heart trouble and a doctor's warning that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bouloumboulou | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Hardheaded German businessmen estimate that by 1960 the airline will have piled up an 85 million Deutsche Mark ($20.2 million) deficit and will still be losing money at the rate of 10 million DM ($2,400,000) yearly.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Return of Lufthansa | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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