Word: alg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Caponsacchi, by NBC Symphony's First Violist Carleton Cooley, Saint-Saëns' Suite Algérienne, Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys Overture, Johann Strauss's Voices of Spring. Conductor: Frank Black...
...Colonial Government proclaimed martial law in Little Kabylia, sent out punitive columns of Foreign Legionnaires, Senegalese and Moroccan troops. Artillery and aircraft smashed native villages. The new Algerian nationalist party, Amis du Manifeste ("Friends of the Manifesto"), was outlawed, its leaders arrested. The old Parti Populaire Algérien, whose slogan is "Algeria for the Algerians," was carefully watched...
Roar followed roar from all parts of the harbor as ship after ship exploded. German troops raced for the Vauban Basin where the battleship Dunkerque had been tied up for repairs since the British attack on Oran in July 1940. Near by were the cruisers Algérie, Foch and Jean de Vienne; their docks were wrecked with them. Earth and air trembled as the beautiful ships destroyed themselves...