Word: algerianness
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Duroselle was especially pessimistic on the chances for an immediate end of the Algerian controversy. He pointed out that any settlement would have to be achieved with the collaboration of the Algerian provisional government. But, he said, this group is recommending as its representatives several rebels who are now in jail. Until negotiations can approach a more serious level, Duroselle stated, the continuation of the strife seems likely...
...East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity was affronted when two French destroyers intercepted the West German freighter Bilbao and forced it to put into Cherbourg on the suspicion (unfounded, as it turned out) that it was carrying arms to the Algerian rebels...
...Paris, where cynical politicians have heard everything, even the most unsurprisable wore the slightly dazed air of men who have just heard a mallard endorse a shotgun. After years of unwavering hostility to Charles de Gaulle, French Communists abruptly abandoned their denunciations of his Algerian policy and made it known that they were eager to shake his hand...
...summit (TIME, Nov. 2). By delaying a summit, De Gaulle hopes to be able to ensure Russia's good behavior during the U.N. debate on Algeria. Fortnight ago summit-hungry Nikita Khrushchev swallowed hard and publicly proclaimed: "President de Gaulle's recent proposal that the Algerian problem be solved on the basis of self-determination . . . may play an important part in the settlement of the question." Until then, French Communists had dismissed De Gaulle's offer as "a political maneuver . . . intended to deceive democratic opinion," and the more rabid Chinese Communists called it "sugarcoated poison...
...French Communist Party arose from one of those crow-eating feasts of "selfcriticism" that used to be held more regularly in Stalin's time. The French party's original stand, it now conceded, "was not quite in tune on certain points with the general analysis of the Algerian problem made . . . at the party's 14th and 15th congresses...