Word: algerianness
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...allowed himself-sent a wave of applause through his audience, a wave of astonishment through professional politicians. In Algiers last week the French army boasted that the rebels had suffered an average of 900 casualties a week in March and April -a claim that scarcely suggested that the Algerian fighting was dwindling. A rebel spokesman, far from denying the French claim, declared that the rebels were in fact losing 500 men a day, but that, despite this, their army had grown...
...tense days a year ago, after the May 13 Algerian riots that started Charles de Gaulle on his way to power, one French Deputy pleaded: "Let us vote for him lest we lose the right to vote altogether." Last week, as the new Assembly of the Fifth Republic opened its first regular session, flabbergasted Deputies got a demonstration of just how much they had lost after...
...Assembly, the Algerian and Saharan representation is so large (67 members) that the mushy North African dish couscous has become a standard plat du jour in the Assembly restaurant. Deputies were eager to debate the progress of the costly, unsettled Algerian war. Imperiously, Premier Michel Debre declared that there would be no debate on foreign policy, at least before the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting next week, or on Algeria, and under De Gaulle's Fifth Republic constitution, which Lawyer Debre devised. Premier Debre had his way. Complained ex-Premier Robert Schuman: "I wonder if we Deputies have...
Murders & Mistakes. Despite French military successes in Algeria, emotions 'are running high there. Europeans in Algeria have been aroused by the rape and murder of two French women and the killing of a little girl by Algerian rebels. These crimes coincided with news that President de Gaulle had commuted the death sentences of 30 F.L.N. terrorists. "Mistakes are being accumulated, murderers are being pardoned, terrorist outrages continue," said the right-wing Echo d'Alger bitterly. "On May 13 we shall abstain in silence and in mourning unless some new factor occurs...
Last week Echo d'Alger got its "new factor." In Paris, De Gaulle summoned Algerian Deputy Pierre Laffont, the liberal publisher of Echo d'Oran, to a meeting, then authorized Laffont to publish its substance afterwards. De Gaulle managed to excoriate :his French critics in Algeria-and satisfy them at the same time. The F.L.N., De Gaulle assured Laffont, "does not represent Algeria or even the Moslems of Algeria. I have informed all bona fide states that France would immediately withdraw its ambassador from any country that recognized this political organization." De Gaulle had no intentions of negotiating...