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Looking ahead, the outcome at Geneva depends on what the West is prepared to do about Asia. And the West does not know. Paris wants to end the unpopular Indo-China war. France's General Henri Navarre, the able French commander in Indo-China, believes the war can be won with more strength. Yet French leaders in Indo-China do not want too much U.S. help for fear that the help might provoke Communist China into open intervention. Within the Eisenhower Administration, the situation is just as confused: one faction of the State Department thinks Indo-China...
...nation picked the Arawak word Haiti (meaning Mountainous Land) for a name, then proceeded to split itself in two. In the north, the fabulous Henri Christophe made himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy and built a monumental stone fortress on a needle-top mountain-history's greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...
Most eloquent of them is Psychiatrist Henri Flournoy, who cites a typical case history: Mile. X was a schoolgirl, not yet 16, the daughter of a farmer. She had been seduced at a fair in a neighboring village, did not even know the man's name. Her parents wanted a legal abortion. "This young girl, physically healthy, ran no danger either from the bodily point of view or from the mental," says Dr. Flournoy. "But if I had refused authorization, I would have inflicted incalculable damage on her from a psychological point of view...
...funny by definition, Slezak performs nobly as Joseph, one of a trio of convicts who attempt to solve the problems of the Ducotel family. Losing money at an alarming rate, Felix Ducotel's general store in the French penal colony is soon to be closed by Henri Trochard, the prototype of a heartless capitalist. To add insult to bankruptcy, Ducotel's daughter is hopelessly in love with Trochard's nephew, who can only marry on the pain of disinheritance. At this point, it might be said with some justification that this is nothing new, even under the Guiana sun. Actually...
...equal to Slezak's level of acting. Replacing the original New York company, his companions betray a lack of familiarity with the lines, and worse, a tendency to overact. Admittedly most of the parts are caricatures, yet they do not deserve the heavy treatment of Paul Lipson's Henri Trochard, or the tiring gushiness of Delores Mann, the immature Ducotel daughter. Slezak's fellow convicts, played by Royal Beal and Carl Betz, seem brighter and more natural...