Word: algerianness
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...Algiers, for nearly a week, the right-wing press had been working on the emotions of the city's French population by preaching against Pflimlin as an apostle of "abandonment," because he was known to favor negotiations with the rebel Algerian National Liberation Front. Then came the explosive word that Algerians had executed three French prisoners in reprisal for the execution of three rebels in Algiers' jail. Driven by uncontrollable fury, thousands of colons surged into the streets of Algiers shouting "The army to power!" and "Vive De Gaulle!" (see below). They were quieted only when General Massu...
...thwacking of Papon's night sticks and the defiance of the Algerian generals could not be heard in the sleepy (pop. 365) village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, 150 miles southeast of Paris. But these were expectant sounds that reverberated in the imagination of Colombey's first citizen, a towering man of 67 with an equine face and the stiff, awkward movements of a French career soldier. And they were sounds that drove him at last to pick up the telephone, an instrument he dislikes, and summon an aide from Paris to receive a typically laconic statement...
...curious ambivalence-a mixture of apparent political apathy and of passionate disgust for present parliamentary procedures. Ostensibly, the French dilemma hinges on Algeria: it was the suspicion that he was moving toward negotiations with the rebels that toppled Felix Gaillard after 5½ months in office. But the Algerian problem could long ago have been resolved were it not for the unreconstructed imperialist who skulks within the breast of so many Frenchmen. Cynical about government, about grandeur and glory, Frenchmen nonetheless are vulnerable to exhortations that France must rank high among the nations and be respected. ("Respect?" wrote...
...weeks ago the French national student association passed a resolution on the Algerian situation which an American observer termed "tantamount to calling...
...Algerian rebels have rejected this proposal, maintaining that independence must be a pre-condition to negotiations with France...