Viewing page 57 of 65

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

2

footbridge, Pont des Arts, continues to improve. If this is wonderful spring must be unbearably so. How could anyone visit this city & leave to make plans for another war. Le Monde is running some horrible stories on personal incidents in Algeria. A woman was tortured and was refused the opportunity by a General to identify the torturers- this is against the French constitution. Michel: "C'est horrible." I'm afraid the French will still be worrying about only Algeria and be shocked by quite another matter before they know it. The govt. civil employees got no raise after their significant strike effort.

Henry - the young writer found a good apt. with view of St. Germain des Pres - forcibly vacated tenant was a member of the O.A.S. Heated - maybe his typewriter keys will stop snapping off. He's a strange boy - has a phobia for nuts and faints when he sees someone else lose consciousness - for a son of a psychologist.

How I miss talking to you and as an appreciator of simple things human and beautiful. Michel is only one here so far. As I can't speak as much French as he can English - we weather thru a simple vocabulary line - it's actually nice in that there is relatively little conversation. He knows