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Most Frenchmen took that as a clear warning: as he had done once before in 1946, when displeased with Frenchmen, President Charles de Gaulle might simply resign his high position and go quietly back home to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. What then? Not the least of the anomalies of present-day France is that under the constitution of the Fifth Republic. De Gaulle's place would be taken by the president of the French Senate: Gaston Monnerville, a 64-year-old Negro from French Guiana...
...Protestant, may not accept the particulars of his formula. I turn away from some of his personal loyalties. But this Roman Catholic does have a clear vision of unity, unity beyond present-day divisions, and his consensus includes the physicology of common agreement...
...Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a reasonably diverting romance that is not as taut as it should be because its tale of dark doings in Greece and Sicily is interleaved with too much travel gush. The author's proposition is that a band of left-of-Moscow terrorists in present-day Greece plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail...
Terrified Thanks. Whatever his end, De Gaulle had chosen as his means a kind of three-stage rocket designed to surmount the towering divisions and dissensions of present-day France. Stage I of De Gaulle's plan, which will precede the referendum, consists of a series of administrative reforms in Algeria. A High Commissioner for Algeria (probably tough-minded Education Minister Louis Joxe) will take office in Paris, but his Deputy Commissioner in Algiers itself will be a Moslem. (Reportedly, two prominent Moslems have already been sounded out about the job and have declined with terrified thanks.) The political...
...tourists nostalgic for the gamy days of the 1920s can find echoes of the Prohibition Era in present-day India. As the members of India's Central Prohibition Committee met last week in New Delhi, the capital around them went its merry alcoholic way. In private apartments converted into speakeasies, tired Delhi businessmen sipped beer at 10 rupees ($2) a bottle. In Connaught Circus, the heart of town, young spivs sold paper bags containing liquor, soda and ice. A man walking along with a bicycle tire over his shoulder might be on his way to fix a flat...