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...France & Mendès-France...
...what the new "saviors" of the world would call old-fashioned and reactionary, but I was deeply grieved upon learning of France's abandonment-without even a popular referendum-of her majestic Indian territory of Pondicherry . . . If this deliberate withdrawal from French territory is a part of Mendès-France's new cooperative and "advanced" program, then I pity the fate of the remainder of the French Republic's pride and glory...
London, last of the war-devastated metropolises to mend its scars, is about to cover its blitzweeds with bright new stores and office buildings. Plans have been drawn for a Rockefeller Center-like project topped by a 27-story building. Two weeks ago Sir Winston Churchill abolished the controls which have held back reconstruction in the City of London. Business had to wait while materials and labor went first to building homes for homeless Britons-a program which achieved 350,000 new homes in one year...
...result is that the most fertile land in Europe is a net food importer. The central promise of Premier Mendès-France's administration is a pledge to rid the country of the restrictions that keep the French from properly realizing their potential of plenty...
...country will feel safer against the prospect of war if German armies with Nazi officers have atom bombs? Really, it seems to me a piece of wanton frivolity to bring forward a proposal of this kind and discuss it as a diplomatic triumph." Eden was "squeezed into submission by Mendès-France and Foster Dulles. So far from it being a triumph, it was the most ignominious surrender in British history...