Word: algerianness
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...recent weeks, CBS has got into difficulties with French authorities for showing a TV interview with Salan in his Algerian hideout, and an NBC reporter has not been allowed back into France because of a talk on France he gave while home in the States...
Bidet Civilization. Back in France after the Indo-China war, the paratroop officers are sickened by the "civilization of the Frigidaire and the bidet." They welcome the Algerian rebellion, and. under Colonel Raspèguy. take over the misfits and mutineers of the 10th Paratroop Regiment, determined to turn them into "Communists" who are antiCommunist. For two months, the regiment is molded by forced marches and the blare of loudspeakers that ceaselessly extol "us" and denounce "them," i.e.. anyone who is not a paratrooper...
...paras' impatient rage at the politicians and blames them for leading the nation in a long retreat from its onetime glory. In effect. Lartèguy's novel is a warning (echoed by many French observers): unless De Gaulle can perform the miracle of ending the Algerian war without further damage to the sense of gloire, the army that put him in power may yet try to overthrow...
...chained, humiliated, sick with fear; we are at our lowest ebb." With these words, France's existentialist philosopher and left-wing propagandist, Jean-Paul Sartre, donned the mantle of doom for his countrymen.* Describing the much-discussed crisis of conscience confronting France as a result of the Algerian war, Sartre coined a new expression, "involution" -a tragic process by which the former colonizers adopt the savagery of the native lands they once colonized...
...side is barbarism?" His answer is that they are now on the French side. He hears the equivalent of the native tom-toms in the automobile horns with which the French ultras like to beat out the rhythm Al-gé-rie fran-çaise. "The unification of the Algerian people is producing the disintegration of the French people. Terror has left Africa and established itself here in France. Violence thus comes full circle, going this way and that way until, step by step, we are going native...