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That was in 1933. For the decade that followed, Diem steered clear of politics, mostly read and studied at his home in Hué. It was a crucial time, for the revolutionary spirit was incubating swiftly. While developing the country, the French were extracting every possible sou in profits; every salt worker had to sell his output to the French-controlled monopoly, which sold the salt back to the Vietnamese at a handsome markup; each village was required to buy its rice liquor at fixed prices from the French distillers; as for reform and freedom, there was not a word...
...Philippe as Sargantua. The lithograph was a comparatively new art in those days, but it quickly became Daumier's bread and butter. He began turning out political cartoons for an ardently antiroyalist magazine called La Caricature. One cartoon portrayed King Louis Philippe as Gargantua gobbling up every last sou in France. For such indiscretions Daumier spent six months in prison...
...College at a time when family and University budgets are severely restricted to essentials. But today, as freshmen, they will find men's minds quickened to thought and imagination by the problems of the present crisis; to the eager student such an atmosphere here is well worth the small sou of temporary financial restriction...
Ever since France cut Guinea off without a sou (when Guinea refused to join the French African Community), suave, handsome Premier Sekou Toure has been touring around looking for money. In the midst of a visit to the U.A.R. last week, he suddenly flew off to Jidda to get acquainted with Saudi Arabia's rich King Saud. Saud proffered no money, so Toure hustled back to Cairo to continue his talks with Nasser, found that the U.A.R. President already had another tourist: Indonesia's Sukarno...
...Gaulle had spoken to Bourguiba with the inspired frankness that disarms so many. He told Bourguiba that Algerian independence was inevitable. Far from opposing Algerian aspirations, De Gaulle would do everything in his power to satisfy them. Instead of cutting off free Algeria "without a sou," France would continue economic aid. France's sole desire, said De Gaulle, was to help Algeria overcome poverty and forget the bitter past...