Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advancing the date to Dec. 27. With the franc officially valued at 420 to the dollar but selling in the free market for 470 or worse, General de Gaulle's government was already faced with one harsh fact: unless the official value of the franc were brought into line with its true value, French products would be too highpriced to compete freely-as they must within the six-nation Common Market-against those of Germany, Italy and Benelux. Now, in addition to devaluing the franc, France had also to make it convertible-or else face a capital flight away...
Recalling those bitter days of uphill struggle, De Gaulle himself has written: "I was starting from scratch. In France, no following and no reputation. Abroad, neither credit nor standing. But this very destitution showed me my line of conduct. It was by adopting without compromise the cause of the national recovery that I could acquire authority. At this moment, the worst in her history, it was for me to assume the burden of France." This attitude "was to dictate my bearing and to impose upon my personality an attitude I could never again change...
...residence of France's Premiers, the Republican Guards now wear dress uniform (white gloves, red epaulets) every day, and treat visitors with a new formality. Senior government officials no longer wander in whenever they feel like an informal chat, nor do they ring up the Premier on a direct line. De Gaulle, who regards the telephone as an intolerable impediment to concentration, has had the only one in his office disconnected...
...even touchier situation created by the Communists in Iraq. Nasser's regime signed a contract with a Soviet delegation in Cairo for the building of Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between bad local Communists and good Russians. Nothing in the Syrian unpleasantness, wrote Nasser's trained seal. Editor Mohammed Heikal of Al Ahram, must be allowed to affect "in any way the great victory we achieved in earning the friendship of the Soviet Union...
...church can expect such sacrifice on a large scale, and Roman Catholics are following the same line as the Protestants. "We don't expect all Catholics to be saints and martyrs," said one priest last week. "The church is not a society of the elect. If a Catholic wavers under the pressure of a dictatorial state, sins and repents, the door is open...