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...administration found that the Vietnamese government would hire them-at a low salary-only if they forfeited their French citizenship. With the exodus of French firms, it became difficult for them to find any sort of work. Premier Diem signed a law requiring all Vietnamese with names like Jean. Henri or Marcel to take genuine Indo-Chinese names like Nguyen, Tran or Trinh. Forced to choose between two worlds, many fled in desperation to France, where the government has set up refugee camps and schools for them...
...favored parts of it must have been the Tassili-N-Ajjer, a plateau about 900 miles southeast of Algiers. Today the region is one of the driest deserts on earth and almost uninhabited, but in prehistoric and early historic times it boiled with vigorous life. Last week French Anthropologist Henri Lhote was back in Algiers with proof of what Tassili-N-Ajjer (which means river plateau) was like while the rains still came...
Change of Title. The biggest remaining affront to Vietnamese pride was French insistence on maintaining a high commissioner instead of an ambassador. Last week that, too, was changed. The Quai d'Orsay announced that High Commissioner Henri Hoppenot, who has never got on well with the Vietnamese, would be recalled and replaced by an ambassador. Delighted, Premier Diem invited Hoppenot to his palace for a farewell Chinese dinner, a gesture unthinkable a year...
...location of the cave is still kept secret to protect it from destructive sightseers. But one honored guest, the Abbe Henri Breuil, dean of French prehistorians, was invited to inspect the find. Although 79 years old, he crept through the cave's winding corridors and examined the animal drawings. He declared them "among the most beautiful specimens of prehistoric art yet discovered," estimated they were late paleolithic, probably between 15,000 and 20,000 years...
...done Gauguin and Van Gogh) have sketched a watercolor rather than a lithograph. But they are at pains to correct the legend fixed in the moviegoing imagination by Actor José Ferrer in Moulin Rouge of pet and amateur pimp to the madams and sporting types of Montmartre. Dwarfed Henri was not a refugee from a name-proud sporting family; he was indeed a proud son of the house of Toulouse, determined to carry his family name into the only field his deformities of mind and body left open to him. To the end he used his stylus like...