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...Gaulle's candidates the parliamentary majority that has eluded every other party in French history. The election came close to annihilating the old, bickering party blocs. The voters also entrusted De Gaulle with sweeping personal powers such as no other ruler of France has wielded since Louis Napoleon. For France, five years of stable government seemed assured. More than that, a new spirit of unity and self-confidence had asserted itself in the nation that for so long had been the sick man of Europe...
Modernizing Napoleon. A side of Charles de Gaulle seldom glimpsed from abroad is his concern for the human condition of France. The government must tackle a vast backlog of "renovation," in a favorite Gaullist phrase, before the nation can hope for new housing, adequate schools, modern highways. Half the houses in France do not have running water. For France's 6,200,000 cars there are only 125 miles of divided parkway, one main north-south artery and, seemingly, not a single vacant parking space in Paris. Urgently needed school modernization programs are bogged down in age-old religious...
...Frenchman's mounting impatience with inconvenience and inertia, Gaullists have ambitious schemes for rural development ("gardening the national territory"), urban improvement, school construction to redeem what one minister calls "our terrible rendezvous with youth." The nation's administrative structure, which has wheezed along with little change since Napoleon's time, will be modernized. Gaullist technicians are already planning to overhaul Paris. Though 18% of the entire population is concentrated in the capital and growing by 100,000 a year, officialdom seems more concerned with preserving old houses than providing new ones. Says one minister...
...daughter, Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen of Morristown, NJ. It is perhaps the most spectacular of the treasures that have recently been added to the collections of U.S. museums (see color). It is an icily majestic portrait of Arthur Wellesley, who was then in the process of driving Napoleon's troops out of Spain, and was to become the first Duke of Wellington, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, Grandee of Spain, and later Prime Minister of England...
...visionary gift of the creative artist originates in his acceptance (albeit unconsciously) of this force for which he expends his energies to the limit of his nature. This drive is common to an artist's creativity and work and a stateman's wickedness alike, to both Beethoven and Napoleon; it features an enormous confidence and a wisdom far beyond common...