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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, July 27, 1959

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday july 27, 1959 de Gaulle s Gloire it grandeur la Belle France models the new look by Godfrey Anderson Paris a frenchmen bitterly cynical for decades about their Short lived governments Are be ginning to show signs of rallying to president Charles de Gaulle s greater France Campaign in this Tiest blazing sum Foer of the fifth Republic the incredibly dignified figure of lie general inh i s d r a Bun belted unde Cor a Ted brigadier general s uniform has cast its Long Shadow int countless Corners of the National life sometimes in quite unlikely. Places. The old unruly clays of the fourth Republic Are out. Some times an admonishing the general would t like that is enough to get something changed. Sometimes new rules and regulations Are needed. The first changes can be seen stat the Frontier. The immigration official in his rumpled civilian suit with a Tricolour armband As the Only sign of his official status is being replaced by agents in Snappy uniforms of air Force Blue. The seedy customs officer no longer shuffles up to Chalk you baggage with coat unbuttoned and a burned out Gau Loise cig Aret dangling from his lip. He works with a Businesslike air under the keen Eye from a coloured de Gaulle portrait on the customs House Wall. In Paris this is the year of the French Community of nations which has seen the birth of 12 new african nations bound by the French Flag. As Many negroes As Whites take their turn at filing in to the president s Elysee Palace study. S the turn out of the armed Force shows there s now a military Man at the top. Soldiers and airmen no longer welter. Their new lightweight summer uniforms Are neatly pressed. Pockets Are buttoned and Caps Are at the regulation Angle sleeves. Only the Paris police forced to abandon their heavy jackets under the july Sun hitch uncomfortably at their pistol weighted belts an try to keep their shirts from rid ing out. Their new summer uni forms won t be ready until next Malraux. Tricolour searchlights Fin Ger the velvety night sky. Fire works explode and jets spew out trails of Tricolour  France being France there Are plenty who say pure circus. Who is going to pay and the almost five year old algerian re Bellion casts its gloomy Shadow  satirical political weekly be canard enc Haine always "agin1 the government is having a Field Day with what it Calls the most regal of  cartoon last week showed visiting emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia being presented to Degaulle by an official who was saying King of Kings meet the president of  the new Campaign for greater dignity goes right to the top whatever people say and Many Are glad to see it that  of the National Assem Bly and Senate Are no longer the shouting fests they once were. Under de Gaulle they Are More Deco Rous than the British House of  is none of the old often unseemly scramble for recognition around the president of the Republic when he makes a Public appearance. Cabinet ministers and other dignitaries wait quietly in line until de Gaulle cares to seethed and shake them by the hand. The press accustomed to work ing pretty freely under the fourth Republic is finding new restrictions irksome. The traditional briefings on the Elysee Steps after Cabinet meetings Are now held lateral the information ministry. Offi Cial explanation it s More dignified that  rugged training for German paratroopers reds plotted iraqi uprising., paper reports Damascus Syria a Damascus daily newspaper reported from Baghdad that Premier Abdul Karim " Assim s regime in neighbouring Iraq has unshaken evidence that communists were responsible for this month s Bloodbath in the Oil Rich iraqi District of  newspaper Al Jawahir said an official investigation committee sent to the scene a week ago has packed much documented unshaken evidence plus scores of Eye witness testimonies pinning responsibility on  2,000 reported dead the newspaper said the commit tee established that the death toll in the six Day Kirkuk troubles  needed 2,000  a special dispatch from Bagh dad Al Jawahir said that at the height of disturbance in Kirkuk which began july 4, the communists attempted to hide their Hor Rible crime by drowning tens of their victims in the Al Khassa River in the  infants killed. The investigating committee afterwards saw Many bodies pulled out of the River Al Jawahir said. The Kirkuk victims it said included Many fat Ilies and about100 infants thrown by communists from High buildings to the  paper said Many parents carried the bodies of their Chil Dren from Kirkuk to Baghdad where they showed them to Kas Sim himself. German paratroopers living like modern tar Zans in a bavarian Forest training area learn How to fight and survive under the most primitive conditions. In right photo parachutists improve their agility of rope Bridge Teft trainees prac Tice hand to hand combat. Up photos year. There spread of steel strike to Allied Fields feared Are other changes  have been driven partly underground As result of a police Campaign against hotels which let rooms to them. Pornographic books Are still around put they May Blunder the counter instead of on it. The Dollar Black marketeers have been practically squeezed out of business by the franc s new stability. But none of this has killed off the legendary Gay  Here and there Little touches have Bee added to build up de Gaulle s  Campaign. Mounted Republican guards in full dress with shining breast plates and horse tailed helmets sit on their horses outside the Elysee and the foreign ministry during state visits like the Queen s lifeguards in London. They add  of color which sets tourists movie cameras whirring. Motorcycle escort police have fir s t fitted with new White sum Mer uniforms. They dash in groups about the City blowing sirens an escorting Little motorcade of Busy looking ministers., you hear the Marseillaise played Oil every conceivable occasion. Peo ple rib longer automatically Rush for the exits when it begins. Flag makers have never been so Busy. Blue White and red tribunes go up or Down overnight at the whom of culture minister Andre Washington a govern ment officials Are worried that aluminium and Cooper Industry strikes May soon develop As a companion to the steel strike shutting Down virtually All . Metal production. Walkouts in aluminium or Copper or both might cause president Eisenhower to reconsider invoking the Taft Hartley Law s National emergency provisions leading to court injunctions to suspend the strikes. So far or. Eisenhower has steered Clear of utilizing the Law s80-Day strike stopping Powers. It is not Lack of Metal for defense and civilian Industry that worries officials. There Are on hand comfortable supplies of aluminium and Copper As there Are of steel. It is the effect on the nation s Economy that has officials mos concerned. Already an estimated 78,000 workers in railroads Coal and Allied industries have been idled by the steel  a steel labor settlement and none now seems in Prospect the layoffs will grow. If the approximately 120,000 Alu Minum and Copper workers go out birth of a traffic Jam London Nana every 100 seconds a child is born in eng land. Every 50 seconds an Auto Mobile  off the Assembly lines in England. Is the Man of the future expected to Purchase two cars each year. The Man in charge of traffic problems Hopes that this situation will be corrected. On strike joining the 500,000 idled steelworkers the Job displacement figure could mushroom quickly to a million or  would have its effect on purchasing Power and Dent the Overall National Prosperity. Aluminium Industry contracts run out next Friday Midnight. Several unions including the steelworkers already on strike against steel producers Are threatening a walkout. Union settlement proposals have been rejected in new York Nego  Copper Industry contracts expired june 30. The mine Mill and smelter workers Union an in dependent has been continuing work on a Day to Day basis. Copper prospects brighter prospects seemed brighter How Ever for a Copper Industry Settle ment than one in steel or alumni num. The mine Mill Union was re ported considering an offer made by one of the major Copper producers. If accepted it could be come an Industry wide settlement pattern in Copper. In steel the Union has asked for a 15-cent annual raise in wages and benefits. The Restrike aver age of worker earnings was $3.10 an hour. The Industry has refused any contract raises on the ground they would be inflationary. Steel firms also complain of allegedly wasteful work practices. There / is an estimated two to three month steel Supply on hand. Government officials estimated there is a 30 to 60-Day aluminium Supply and at least a 307-Day cop per inventory secret service warns of bogus $100 Bills Philadelphia up the secret service has warned against counterfeit $100 Bills which have been used in hotels restaurants and even a Philadelphia Bank. Agents said they had Purchase about $500,000 of the bogus Bills across the nation in an Effort to track Down the engraver. Cop kills boy 16, who shot 5 kids \ new York up an off duty policeman shot and killed a teen age boy moments after the boy fired a sawed off Shotgun at a crowd of children at play wound ing six  said Honor patrolman Walter Downs  the youth identified As 16-year-old Carlos Rosario when Rosario. Pointed the weapon at  said that Rosario fired one shot with his double barrelled gun at. A group of children playing near a Bronx intersection. Five of the children boys aged 7 to 11, and a 23-year-old Man were taken to Morrisania Hospital. 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