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...North Africa, the Middle East and Indo-China, but later joined De Gaulle in dissolving the empire. He personally issued the proclamation freeing Syria in September 1941 and Lebanon two months later, in 1955 negotiated the return of the Sultan of Morocco to his throne and later vigorously supported Algerian independence. For all of this he earned De Gaulle's praise as a soldier "possessing the sense of the greatness of France...
...Manifesto, a trio of British New Leftists write against empire, the cold war and the concept of consensus with wit, clarity and a cutting edge that once would have deserved to be called Tory. Frantz Fanon is ingeniously convincing on the subtle significance of the Algerian woman's veil, first in the tyranny, finally in the overthrow of French colonial control. In an interview, Black Panther Leader Huey Newton is equally to the point, perhaps never more so than when fingering the dilettantism of young white radicals: "I call their rejection of the System somewhat of an abstract thing...
...from most of Europe and brought unusually warm and sunny weather. Meanwhile, cool air suddenly began to flow from the Soviet Union toward the Mediterranean. A low-pressure system over Northern Africa created a bowling-alley effect, directing the moisture-laden air mass straight at Tunisia. On the Tunisian-Algerian border, the Atlas Mountains blocked the air and caused the rain to fall. The mountains also set up a swirling air flow in which clouds gathered up new water...
...headed in Viet Nam for any defeat remotely akin to Germany's humiliation in World War I, which the German generals blamed on treacherous politicians and civilian softness. Nor is Viet Nam likely to prove quite as bitter a military experience as the French abandonment of the Algerian war, in which some French officers even threatened to attack Paris in their rage against De Gaulle's pull-out orders. In fact, the U.S. military harbors a new, scarcely admitted optimism about the present battlefield situation in Viet Nam (see THE NATION). This, however, only makes more galling...
...enemy who uses terror deliberately (see box, page 29). But that certainly is no excuse for American behavior at My Lai. It is also small comfort to the U.S. that other Western nations have been guilty of wartime atrocities. The French executed some 15,000 Moslems in the long Algerian war of the 1950s. At Amritsar in India's Punjab, British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer marched 50 of his soldiers toward a menacing mob of Indians in 1919 and, without warning, they killed 379 people with rifle fire. The Germans bombed and machine-gunned to death 1,600 people...