Word: algerians
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...young French woman, recently back from two years in Algeria, expressed dark pessimism about the prospects for any effective settlement of the French-Algerian crisis at the International Seminar Forum last night...
...Cordebas asserted, too, that Algeria is developing a left-wing elite trained under fire of the battle. She predicted that an independent Algerian government will be far to the left of the government of Tunisia and Morocco...
...made them the despair of France and the bane of the French army. It is natural for troops in battle to get their food and drink where they can find it. But the paratroopers carried looting several stages further, in keeping with the time-honored practices of the Algerian war. They went through Tunisian houses and emerged with wads of money, watches and jewelry. They wantonly smashed what they could not carry away...
Though often blasted by his critics, left-leaning French Author Jean-Paul Sartre, 56, was never really bombed-until last week. Then supporters of the French ultras, obviously nettled by Sartre's stumping for Algerian independence, planted a bomb outside his fourth-floor walkup apartment on Paris' Left Bank. Sartre was judiciously vacationing at the time, and no one was hurt...
...curiously flimsy. On the other hand, he vividly pictures De Gaulle-whom he interviewed before the return to power-as "gnarled with ego" and "positively lunar," yet possessed of a curious humility that prompted him to answer, in longhand, some 5,000 letters on his handling of the 1960 Algerian crisis. Gunther is even more successful with the elusive personality of Harold Macmillan, a fellow member of London's Bucks Club, who granted him a rare two-hour interview. In a revealing passage the author says that the Prime Minister talked "about the glow and throb of the England...