Word: algerianness
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...Algerian conspirators well knew that they could not succeed unless they won mainland France, and Debré took to television in a near state of panic. "Aircraft are ready to drop or land paratroops at various airdromes to prepare a seizure of power,'' he warned. "As soon as the sirens sound, go there by foot or by car to convince the misled soldiers of their profound error." Later, in an evening that Parisians already refer to as La Nuit Folle (Mad Night), Minister of Culture Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux delivered a stirring address to an unlikely...
...army revolt would be impossible to imagine in most fully industrialized countries, Wahl continued. The recent attempt shows that there is still a primitive, "Latin American" strain in French culture. It may also make the Algerian rebels wonder if de Gaulle will be able to impose any treaty he signs upon the Frenchmen in Algeria, Wahl said...
...French conservatives are not at all like their American counterparts, Wahl asserted. They generally represent the economic interests that are being replaced by the continued industrialization of France, and they look upon the Algerian crisis as their last lever to use to play the economic change they fear...
...foreign policy on everyone who would listen. To hear him tell it, the universal enemies are colonialism, the Belgians in the Congo, and Western imperialists in general, while Belgrade-style neutralism is Africa's only salvation. By the time he got up to Morocco, "the struggle of the Algerian people for freedom" was at the top of his list...
...hunting party near Rabat, took the Yugoslav leader for a ride on one of his new superslick yellow-and-red diesel trains, just delivered from France, as thousands of Moroccans cheered. Then Tito steamed off for six days of talks with President Habib Bourguiba in Tunis and with the Algerian F.L.N. rebel leaders. Urging negotiations with France, Tito told F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas: "You must be bold enough to know when to call...