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...gipsy's reach. The gipsy said, 'Why do you do that when you have only 18 francs in your bag?' The woman had exactly that sum. Then the gipsy told each of the other passengers how much he or she had, down to the last sou. 'Since you know so much,' one passenger asked, 'tell us when Hitler will die.' 'On December second,' the gipsy said, and got out at the next stop...
Although the Chamber of Deputies last week moved to appropriate funds to provide meagre board and care for the refugees, the chances are that France in the end will not be out one sou. The daily $185,000 bill can be met for a long time by expropriating the treasures the Loyalists deposited and shipped to France months ago. General Franco would like the money himself. He has hinted that he thought the refugees' care was not his baby. Rebel Spain has, in fact, made the refugee problem a bargaining point with the French Government. Furthermore...
...help the folks at home, France has tried to squeeze the last sou out of its colonies. Such subject races as the Tahitians squeeze with docility. Not so the Arabs of French African Tunisia and Algeria. Nearly two years ago Tunisia's Resident General Marcel Peyrouton warned: "If Tunisia is to be saved, France must help. The protectorate must have the power to export wines, wheat and oils. . . . If we lose Tunisia our whole establishment in North Africa will be imperiled...
...Gailor continued: "The capitalistic, profit-motive machine system defeated itself." Then he offered his own solution: "The Christian religion has demonstrated its power to mould the social and political character of the world; but its real force is in working from within by influencing and transforming the individual human sou!. It is not a mere system of philanthropy. It is not a cure for social misery that can be applied from the outside; but ... it brings to each man and woman the message of redemption, and offers them a new nature and new life through faith in Jesus Christ...
...national hero, had just been kicked upstairs from Governor of the Bank of France to Honorary Governor. He was going to receive the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and soon a lesser tightwad would replace him, hélas. To the fusty servants and to millions of sou-pinching Frenchmen all this was decidedly bad news...