Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States has finally made its decision in North Africa. The value of making a choice should have been apparent to the State Department months ago. The two comparatively clear-cut alternatives, support for French colonialism or Algerian independence, are not irreconcilable, but are of a sufficiently inflammatory nature to require United States recognition...
Hopefully, one by-product of the shipment of weapons will be a revitalizaed French approach to the Algerian problems. Already Gaillard and Pineau have taken a significant step forward in introducing a bill for limited Algerian autonomy into the Chamber of Deputies. Only the French could be so perverse as to defeat such a bill twice in a row. The best hope for peace in North Africa is a program of gradual independence under the sponsorship and with the guidance of France. The French legislators, irrational or not, cannot ignore the need and the solution forever...
...United States, however, will have to do more for a concrete settlement of the Algerian crisis than simply hand out arms and sympathy to the parties concerned. Aside from attempting to reconcile the French to the change, American diplomacy will have to aim for a strong and, eventually, a fully autonomous Algeria...
...French this was an act of open hostility, for most Frenchmen firmly believe that Tunisia's dynamic President Habib Bourguiba turns over to the Algerian rebels every gun he can lay hands on. At the NATO Parliamentarians' Conference in Paris, French Deputy Pierre Schneiter, white with anger, declared that "the pursuit of Atlantic unity has no further purpose," and stalked out, followed by the rest of the French delegation. France's harried young Premier Felix Gaillard, who had called Ambassador Houghton in at 1:30 a.m. to protest the U.S.British arms shipments, implied that France would boycott...
...with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...