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French President De Gaulle urged recently that his countrymen confront the Algerian dilemma by "looking straight at the problems." But a growing number of Frenchmen were looking apprehensively over their shoulders at M. De Gaulle. The rising tide of suspicion that the government is threatening civil liberties has rocked the nation, which for two years had slept in the absence of any real political life...
...articulated dissent embodied itself in a manifesto "On the Right to Refuse Service in the Algerian War," which was issued on September 1. The document signed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Andre Breton, Simone Signore and 117 other French artists and intellectuals was essentially a refutation of responsibility for the excesses of the repressive French army. "French militarism, fifteen years after the destruction of Hitlerism, has restored torture," declared the signers. "What is the meaning of good citizenship," they asked, "when it is defined as shameful submission...
...manifesto's resounding effect is largely attributable to the great popular interest in the "Jeanson trial." Professor Francis Jeanson was the leader of an underground network composed largely of intellectuals, Moslem Algerians, and former resistance fighters, supporting the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Along with twenty other Frenchmen and five Algerians, Jeanson was tried for treason this fall, in the same military tribunal where Capt. Dreyfus was sentenced as a traitor in 1894. The defense claimed, "When a people resists oppression, it is entitled to every respect... and all the help one can give it." Jeanson, however, was sentenced...
...final public appearance of his six-day stay at the University, Mendes-France said that all French domestic and foreign problems are directly or indirectly related to the Algerian Revolution. He pointed out that a large majority of the French people oppose continuation...
Mendes-France maintained that the Algerian conflict has damaged France's relations with other former French colonies, but that the damage is not extensive. He recommended a full assault on the problems of such underdeveloped countries by all nations of the Western world...