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Chapter 13 Conference In Paris
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Book 3 At Home And Abroad
Chapter 13 Conference In Paris
In a room in Paris five men were sitting. It was a room that had seen his-toric meetings before. Quite a number of them. This meeting was in manyways a meeting of a different kind yet it promised to be no less historic.
Monsieur Grosjean was presiding. He was a worried man doing his bestto slide over things with facility and a charm of manner that had oftenhelped him in the past. He did not feel it was helping1 him so much today.
Signor Vitelli had arrived from Italy by air an hour before. His gestureswere feverish2, his manner unbalanced.
‘It is beyond anything,’ he was saying, ‘it is beyond anything one couldhave imagined.’
‘These students,’ said Monsieur Grosjean, ‘do we not all suffer?’
‘This is more than students. It is beyond students. What can one com-pare this to? A swarm3 of bees. A disaster of nature intensified4. Intensifiedbeyond anything one could have imagined. They march. They have ma-chine-guns. Somewhere they have acquired planes. They propose to takeover the whole of North Italy. But it is madness, that! They are children–nothing more. And yet they have bombs, explosives. In the city of Milanalone they outnumber the police. What can we do, I ask you? The milit-ary? The army too–it is in revolt. They say they are with les jeunes. Theysay there is no hope for the world except in anarchy5. They talk of some-thing they call the Third World, but this cannot just happen.’
Monsieur Grosjean sighed. ‘It is very popular among the young,’ he said,‘the anarchy. A belief in anarchy. We know that from the days of Algeria,from all the troubles from which our country and our colonial empire hassuffered. And what can we do? The military? In the end they back the stu-dents.’
‘The students, ah, the students,’ said Monsieur Poissonier.
He was a member of the French government to whom the word ‘stu-dent’ was anathema6. If he had been asked he would have admitted to apreference for Asian ’flu or even an outbreak of bubonic plague. Eitherwas preferable in his mind to the activities of students. A world with nostudents in it! That was what Monsieur Poissonier sometimes dreamtabout. They were good dreams, those. They did not occur often enough.
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