Word: algerianness
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Wearing French army uniforms, six groups of Algerian rebels last week struck simultaneously at six French farms near Palestro in Algeria. In a few minutes they had slaughtered the occupants of two farms, burned down two other unoccupied farms and killed the cattle, and shot up another family as it escaped...
...news reached Paris on the eve of a full-dress debate on the Algerian situation in the Chamber of Deputies, and gave emotional force to the right's demand for stronger action in Algeria. Shouted Poujadist Bullyboy Jean-Marie Le Pen: "The problem in North Africa is military before everything else." But the news also strengthened the government's demand that French Resident Minister Robert Lacoste get special powers to handle the situation. With his opening words to the Assembly, Lacoste drew a crash of applause from everyone except the Communists : "Not a single Frenchman-I say this...
Little by Little. Lacoste's current nightmare is a general Algerian uprising. Said he: "At the beginning of November 1954, the rebellion looked like a very limited movement. But little by little . . . the rebellion spread, and today one-third of northern Algeria is infected by it. Our monthly losses in lives have passed from 30 in November 1954, to 285 in January...
...Czech arms. Worse, this attempt to use the French as a decoy represents not only diplomatic ineptitude, but moral cowardice. If we are unwilling to commit ourselves fully to Israeli interests, it is indeed base to attempt to force the French into it. France with her Algerian problem, is as interested in maintaining Moslem goodwill as the United States, and hence is most unwilling to make the shipment, in spite of American pressure. Thus, by urging the French to this distasteful action, the State Department is irritating not only the Arabs, but also the French, who already...
...crowd roared approval, and before the evening was over, Biaggi was in control of the Committee for Public Safety. Next day Biaggi took his oratory and obscenities to the meeting of local mayors, talked them into issuing a manifesto demanding that all convicted Algerian terrorists now in jail be hanged out of hand...