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Letter From Paris
Sykes, Gerald | March 24, 1956 issue

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The quiet French belief--perhaps unfounded, perhaps not--that France, despite its much-publicized division, its painful past defeats, its inevitable future disasters, will not only go on but will do better than anyone expects in the modern world to which it seems so badly maladjusted. There is a toughness and resiliency in its fabric that will stand up even against the worst storms that lie ahead. France is continuing a way of life that may appear tragically outdated to pragmatic or revolutionary eyes--and will certainly need drastic revision sooner or later--yet this way contains a subtle understanding of the true dynamics of existence, even technological existence, that is the best augury for national survival.

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POSTWAR reconstruction; COMMUNITY development; CITIES & towns -- Growth; ECONOMIC development; FRANCE -- Social conditions; FRANCE
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