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...Belgium too. EDC was debated last week. Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak, one of Europe's most ardent champions of unity, threw all his oratory into the argument. "Could we ask young Belgians to defend Europe on the Elbe." he asked, "while the Germans stayed home?" The chamber was half empty during the debate, for Belgium has apparently already made up its mind: to ratify...
...great Communist offensive in Indo-China, which had been expected since the monsoons ended in October, has not materialized, probably because General Henri Navarre's aggressive spoiling operations have kept the Viet Minh off balance. Last week Navarre launched the biggest airborne attack since the Langson border raid in July, this time against the Communist base at Dienbienphu. Between the Black River and Laos. This time it was not a hit-and-run raid; the French meant to seize Dienbienphu and hold...
...gave little gasps of surprise when they saw the garland of new-fangled electric lamps decorating the entrance to the Palais' cellar. When they went down the stairs, they and their escorts found more reason for excitement. On the basement walls hung 990 pictures: oils by Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet and Fėlix Vallotton, a whole wallful of paintings by Paul Gauguin, only six months dead in his Pacific island paradise...
...that, according to preliminary tests, fattens with spectacular rapidity. At one time Broussard planned to buy an island off Alaska and keep the Charolais in quarantine there for a while. The Agriculture Department turned down the idea, but Broussard was not discouraged. He made an enticing offer to devout Henri Gilly, owner of the Mexican herd: if Gilly would sell him the cattle, Broussard would donate income from them to Christian charities. In June 1952, Gilly agreed, for $500,000. That left only the problem of getting the Charolais into...
...recent months the clamor in France for pulling up stakes and getting out of Indo-China has been louder than ever beore. This may seem rather a paradox, in view of increased vigor and will to win in the theater itself, under General Henri Navarre (TIME, Sept. 28). But since the end of the war in Korea, France is the only Western nation shedding blood on a major scale to fight Communism in Asia. Hence the resurgence of the blood & dollars theme-which could not be raised very loudly while the U.S. was fighting in Korea. Also. France now faces...