Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long struggle with Algerian rebellion, the French have always felt confident of the loyalty of the Shamba tribesmen who make up the bulk of France's elite Saharan Camel Corps. The Shamba, each of whom owns and cares for his own camels (two for riding, one for supplies), earned high honors during World War II for their support of General Leclerc in his march across Africa...
...weekly L'Express and an ex-braintruster of the Mendes-France regime. To a six-month volunteer stint in 1956 as an active reserve officer in Algeria, he brought a young man's sharp nose for injustice and strong palate for raw truths. By his evidence, the Algerian fiasco seems to have entered the phase where a kind of Gresham's law of superheated nationalism applies-the fanatics drive out the moderates...
Orphaned at the Marne. The successful Nobelman was born in the Algerian village of Mondovi, the son of a poor artisan. Orphaned at ten months by the Battle of the Marne, Camus never saw his French father, spent his sou-less boyhood in Algiers with his Spanish mother. Working his way towards a philosophy degree at the University of Algiers, young Camus was invalided by a bout with TB, which may have stimulated his lifelong preoccupation with death. He recovered completely, as he did from a brief bout with the Communist virus contracted at about the same time...
...without a nest since Egypt nationalized its big ditch, last week voted itself another career. In Paris, founder stockholders formally launched, the company into new business worlds as a French investment trust corporation. The Suez Canal Co. will invest $2,800,000 in French companies digging for oil in Algerian Sahara, and already owns a 30% chunk of the planned English Channel tunnel project. Other projects under consideration: oil ventures in Canada, iron deposits in North Africa...
...with France he said that we should be prepared to stand by as a "helpful friend" while France experiences the inevitable pain of "adjustment to loss of power" in Algeria. He sharply criticized as "naive" Sen. John Kennedy's proposal that the U.S. work through the U.N. to achieve Algerian independence...