Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Military aid for the uneasy Philippines, facing the rising specter of Chinese Communism to the north and west, and threatened by the possible Communist occupation of Formosa. ¶Economic aid and civil defense arms for the new United States of Indonesia (see FOREIGN NEWS). ¶U.S. aid to the French forces in Indo-China, which State considers the most effective anti-Communist armies now fighting in east Asia, and simultaneous pressure on Paris to help Emperor Bao Dai cut his puppet strings and set up an independent, popular government in Indo-China...
...sons, who took over the business, were assisted by legions of conscientious observers combining the qualities of master spies and bons 'vivants. By the eve of World War II, the Karl Baedeker firm had published more than two million copies of its 87 guides, in English, French and German...
When he gets there he will find young painters still discussing the problems that the grand old men of French art first raised at the turn of the century. There will be nothing new to shake his simple, and productive, philosophy...
Died. Jacques Stern, 67, French banker and onetime Radical-Socialist cabinet minister (Merchant Marine, Colonies) and under secretary (Navy); in a plunge from his ninth-floor Park Avenue duplex in Manhattan...
Devil in the Flesh. A penetrating French picture of adolescent love in wartime (TIME, March...