Word: algerianness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Socialist Bourgès-Maunoury hammered out a loi-cadre (skeleton law) for Algeria that by the current standards of French opinion was almost generous. It would divide Algeria into half a dozen semi-autonomous regions in which Moslems would for the first time have equal voting rights with Algerian Frenchmen. After two years the regional assemblies were to be allowed to elect a "federal executive council." "With the loi-cadre," said Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, "France will have sympathy and consideration from the free world. Without it, I can answer for nothing...
...cadre had already been rejected out of hand by the Algerian National Liberation Movement, but it might have had an effect on other war-weary Algerian Moslems. Now, even should it pass and Bourgès-Maunoury remain in office, the loi-cadre no longer stood as a shadowy promise of a political solution to the rebellion. Instead, it is a document which says that France intends to hang on in Algeria, whatever the rest of the world says...
...rebel commanders in Algeria, none has given the French more trouble than handsome Yacef Saadi, the 29-year-old ex-baker who for nearly two years hcs been chief of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front) in the city of Algiers. Within the labyrinthine depths of Algiers' Casbah, Yacef and his mistress, an Algerian law student named Zohra Drif, were uncrowned monarchs. Under the very nose of French police and paratroopers, Yacef collected "taxes," dispensed his own justice, and organized the bloody bombing attacks of cafés and streets that have kept Algiers' French edgy for months...
...weeks later Leopold was set free on bail, though two of his companions, both Algerian, were kept shut up in prison. Whatever the price of his freedom, Marcel Leopold was called upon last week to pay it. Bound homeward for lunch at his roomy third-floor apartment on Geneva's sunny Cours de Rive, he staggered through the door, fell into his wife's arms muttering, "I've been poisoned!", and died...
...Montreux, Switzerland, Ferhat Abbas, leader of the Algerian National Liberation Front (F.L.N.), rejected the French plan out of hand. "For 125 years," said Abbas, "we have served as guinea pigs for French schemes. We will settle for nothing short of independence...