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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insists that he is not anti-American. "I am one of France's few public men who know the U.S., who speak English, who read the books and magazines. But I am pro-French! Excuse me, but I ami" He is outspokenly resentful of the U.S. refusal to support France in Algeria. "The Americans." he declared early last year, "treat their friends as enemies and their enemies as friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Visionary | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...reached Soustelle in Mexico in 1940. he thought of joining the British or Canadians. The British consul told him that a French general had turned up in London. "I didn't know anything about him. He could have been, well, any kind of general." But Soustelle wired his support to Charles de Gaulle, and was summoned to London. There the young competition animal (he was then 28) recognized a man he regarded as fit to be his master. Years afterward an old Marxist friend, cornering Soustelle at an art exhibition, reproachfully demanded: "Jacques, how could you have left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Visionary | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...sent his top aide, Bishop Anthimos, to Athens to plead with the old soldier to restrain himself. Sighed Makarios to a reporter: "For Cyprus the Cypriot problem is over. The problem now exists in Greece." So far, however, the bitter Grivas does not seem to have captured much public support in Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Soldier's Revolt | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...still could not speak English. The inevitable result: the children enter first grade normally at six, make no headway in school, and eventually drop out. Tijerina found that in five Texas counties alone, where the population is 90% Mexican-American, the state spent $3,000,000 a year to support dependent children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A 400-Word Start | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Paying a Little Back. Tijerina soon opened nine more schools, got strong support from Texas Governor Price Daniel, who appointed him to a top-level committee studying the state's educational needs. This spring, of dozens of appropriations urged by the committee, the only one passed by the frugal state legislature was a $1,300,000 bill to set up Tijerina-style schools throughout Texas. Reason: hundreds of five-year-olds have now had the Tijerina treatment, and less than 5% have flunked the first grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A 400-Word Start | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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