Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Marcel Cerdan, 33, Algerian-born French boxer, former (1948-49) middleweight champion of the world; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS...
That modern art is a frightful thing is an opinion which many a layman shares-and some artists. William Robinson Leigh is one of them. The trouble began, he thinks, with the Algerian wars (1830-47), which made absinthe a French fashion. Artist Leigh, 81, is not the absinthe type, as Manhattan gallerygoers could see last week. West Virginia-born, he spent the Gay Nineties in the Royal Academy at Munich, mastering-between occasional beers -the realistic painting then in demand...
...Here We Stand." On May 19, 303 A.D., in the Algerian city of Cirta (now Constantine), one Munatus Felix, high priest of the emperor, personally led a raid on a Christian service. He took with him a stenographer, whose report, taken in shorthand, sounds disconcertingly familiar to modern ears...
Algeria. In the oldest of France's North African possessions, and the most "assimilated" to French culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...
...olive-skinned Ferhat Abbas, Algerian autonomist, mounted the speaker's rostrum, the atmosphere tensed. A rightist deputy growled: "What is that salaud doing here?" Flushed with anger, the Algerian answered that he was there to denounce the highly touted project of the new French union incorporated in the constitution as "codifying a new colonialism as dangerous as the colonialism of yesterday. The colonial policy of France was one of the principal sores of the Third Republic." An angry clamor broke out in the Chamber. Some rightist and center deputies stalked out in indignation. Others, including MRP President Maurice Schumann...