Word: algerians
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...Tanya botched her week in Venice, she certainly didn't do any worse than the producers and directors who supplied movies to the competition. Of the 14 films entered in the festival, only Sweden's Night Games, Britain's Fahrenheit 451 and a joint Italian-Algerian production of The Battle of Algeria elicited any serious critical approval...
...withdraw from the battlefield now with honor, "an act of renouncing," he said, that would not "injure [the U.S.'s] pride, interfere with its ideals, or prejudice its interests." After all, France did the same thing in Algeria, he pointed out -but failed to mention that the Algerian war involved no alien aggression like Hanoi's. The U.S. would be all the more advised to quit Viet Nam, he argued, because neither side will ever be able to win a military victory. The only solution, De Gaulle insisted, is the neutralization of all Southeast Asia, guaranteed...
...Year, for weathering the Algerian crisis and setting in motion long-overdue internal reforms: "Above all, he has given Frenchmen back their pride, swept away the miasma of self-contempt that has hung over France since its ignominious capitulation to Hitler...
...Sartre is making a valiant attempt to embrace them both. The Condemned of Altona--written a few years before the Critique of Dialectical Reason, Sartre's futile attempt at reconciliation--reflects the tension that has resulted. To this philosophical mixture is added a complicated plot and allegory on the Algerian War, which was raging when the play was written. (The name of the hero, a former Nazi officer who was the "Butcher of Smolensk" is Frantz, rhymes with France.) Almost too much goes on at one time, but the result is very exciting theatre...
...proven expert in bending over backward: Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debré, 54. Before he became De Gaulle's first Premier in 1959, Debré had been totally committed to keeping Algeria French; his main task turned out to be implementing De Gaulle's policy for Algerian independence. De Gaulle rewarded Debré in the arbitrary manner of princes, dumping him in 1962 for suave, casual Banker-about-Town Georges Pompidou. "To be, to have been," said Debré in farewell, "the first collaborator of General de Gaulle is a title without equal...