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...Servan-Schreiber [TIME, Sept. 27] paints a beautiful picture of what Mendés-France is trying to do for France. We wish him well, and I am sure that if he succeeds Americans will be among the first to cheer...
...Servan-Schreiber fails utterly to explain what is wrong with EDC or why it is necessary for Mendés-France . . . to kick U.S. diplomats in the teeth in order to set France's internal house in order...
...roots of present French weakness go deep into the roots of the very economy and habits of the country. Mendés-France is out to transform the economy of France from a cobwebbed cartelized stand-pattism into a vigorous competitive capitalism. To do this he must step on some well-shod toes, but in the ensuing process France will leave the bread line of U.S. foreign aid and take her rightful place in the community of Western nations...
...year the Communist trade-union leaders of the CGT have been carefully avoiding any social agitation, since that might split the united front between the Communists and the far right against the European Defense Community. Now that the immediate goal of this strange alliance has been achieved, Mendès-France's still-undefined foreign policies will determine whether he will continue to be "tolerated" by the Communists...
NORTH TO DANGER, by Virgil Burford as told to Walt Morey (254 pp.; John Day $3.75) makes a fine companion piece to Scott's elephant adventure. Diver Burford spent years in Alaska, mostly pirating salmon from cannery-owned traps or diving to the ocean floor to mend the same traps -amidst sharks and 20-foot octopuses. Once Burford was manning the airline on board ship when another diver in the water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down...