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...Rhone Poulenc has built a new chemical plant near Ottmarsheim, Peugeot a transmission works at He Napoleon, Hispano-Suiza a factory for aircraft components at Molsheim. Franco-Canadian Polymer is making synthetic rubber near the Strasbourg refineries; three other chemical companies have bought sites near by. All this activity has made Strasbourg, 250 miles from salt water, France's biggest port for exports. "Alsace," says Albert Auberger, president of the Strasbourg Port Authority, "is the center of a vast market of 170 million consumers-the keystone of the great arch connecting the North Sea and the Mediterranean...
...leaders of the great corporations believe that they can compete well against their foreign counterparts and like the prospect of selling more to Germans or Italians. In the business magazine Entreprise, 20 of France's most prominent executives-including Pechiney's Chairman Raoul de Vitry, Rhone-Poulenc's Chairman Wilfred Baumgartner and T.S.F.'s (electronics) Chairman Maurice Ponte-came out in support of the market. In a speech opening Marseille's international trade fair last week, Emile Roche, a leading banker and industrialist, said: "Our economy deserves to be told, clearly and categorically, whether...
With the waters of the Rhone as my pillow...
...centuries, the Great St. Bernard Pass was the most popular gateway through the Alpine rampart separating southern and northern Europe. Up its tortuous trails from the Rhone valley climbed tumultuous hordes of Gauls and Germans to sweep down on Italy. And this way, says legend, came Carthaginian Hannibal and his elephants. Climbing the other way, from the beautiful Val d'Aosta, came Caesar's Roman legions intent on conquering tripartite Gaul and planting the legionary eagles on the banks of the Rhine. Nineteen hundred years later, after crushing the Austrians at Marengo, Napoleon and his grenadiers retraced Caesar...
...indeed? Though le grand Charles has often hinted that he would like to retire when his term expires in 1965, he has carefully avoided designating his heir. Last week De Gaulle finally ended the suspense. At Orange, his first stop on a five-day stump tour of the eastern Rhone valley, he declared oracularly: "The essential thing for Charles de Gaulle, President of the Republic, is to know what the French people want. I have the impression that I have discerned this for a quarter of a century. I am determined, as long as I still have the strength...