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...underworld that lies behind the lovely façade of Paris, a new population has moved in on the oldtime apache. In the argot they are les Bicots, but respectable Parisians call them les Algériens. After 1946, when the people of Algeria were granted full French citizenship, they began pouring into France at the rate of 30,000 a year. Arriving in Paris on the slow trains from the Midi, they drift with their bundles into the old, revolutionary districts of Belleville and Ménilmontant, where whole blocks now have the sound and smell of Algerian medinas...
Among this population, against whom a strong racial prejudice is developing in France, the French Communist Party has found violent adherents. Last week les communistes Algériens turned the last hours of Bastille Day, traditionally a gay but tranquil celebration into a riot...
...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...