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From the Basses-Pyrenees to the Haut-Rhin, from the Pas-de-Calais to the Bouches-du-Rhone, voters had good reason to think of Algeria: many of their sons and husbands are there. Unlike the war in Indo-China, where only volunteers were sent (many of them Germans in the Foreign Legion, or African Negroes), the police action in Algeria has been largely waged by French conscripts-reservists called back to the service, and draftees held overtime...
...Gavin gathered all the accounts, and soon came to doubt the usual theory that Hannibal and his 37 elephants-of-war tramped up the Rhone tributary that is now called the Isére. Old historians stated clearly that at that time (October), the river was in flood. The Isére does not flood in October, but another tributary, the Durance, does. Another clue in favor of the Durance is that Hannibal was reported to have passed three Gallic tribes. Old records show that their territories became modern dioceses on the Durance...
...take all the dossiers out of the drawer," said Mendès. He began that afternoon with hope. He spoke of a Moselle canal to link Lorraine's economy with the Ruhr, of a Rhone canal to open the Mediterranean to Germany, of joint arms plants, of joint German-French companies to develop France's North African territories. The Saar, Mendès indicated, could be just a small item in a new, sweeping Franco-German era of partnership...
...already trimmed-down Eisenhower budget. It was $171,675,000 less than last year's pork appropriation. Congressional thrift touched off speculation about the pending foreign aid bill. If Congress is niggardly with funds for the Missouri River, Capitol observers asked, what will happen to appropriations for the Rhone...
...going to live 150 years." He speaks French, German, Italian and Spanish, has lived in Yucatan and Rome, Hong Kong and New Haven. He has sat at the feet of Gertrude Stein, stood by the sickbed of Sigmund Freud, acted as interpreter for Ortega y Gasset, hiked down the Rhone with Gene Tunney, hobnobbed with a Chicago gunman named Golfbag...