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...they no longer had to worry so much about the U.S. wagging its moral finger at them. "Why should the French have a bad conscience?" demanded Soustelle. "It's not France that must use armed troops to put children into school." Fiery right-wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who was once barred from office for collaborating with Pétain, went even further: "Are you going to have us judged by people from Little Rock, by slavers from Yemen, by our enemies from behind the Iron Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Moment of Decision | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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