We have been celebrating, today, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris.

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There is a touching letter from Poulenc to his friend and fellow-composer, Darius Milhaud, who had spent the 1940s in America, written soon after the liberation of Paris.

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The Paris daily Liberation plays down the economic significance of the Danish vote.

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Harold Snedden of the 28th Division marched through Paris on liberation day.

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Time and again, support for terrorism appears to increase when legitimate political activism is suppressed - from the French anarchists who began bombing campaigns after the defeat of the Paris Commune, to the Algerian National Liberation Front struggling to end French colonialism, to the Weather Underground's "Declaration of a state of war" after state repression of student campaigns against the Vietnam War.

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Nearly a hundred years later, President Charles de Gaulle repaid U.S. help in the liberation of France by cultivating close ties with the Soviet Union and expelling NATO headquarters from Paris.

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But my concern is with the second of these pivotal dates, because Paris is awash this month with 1944, with liberation nostalgia.

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In an interview with Paris-based daily newspaper La Liberation published Friday, Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, said that, while the company's French subsidiary would respect French law, he doubted that French courts could make a U.S. company block French users from accessing the content of its U.S. servers.

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