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Expressing the uneasiness of French youth about bearing arms in the sixth year of the Algerian war, the teachers' union issued a manifesto that "the problem of youth has now become the problem of the nation." Young Frenchmen have gone to jail for aiding the rebel FLN. Lyons' Cardinal Gerlier asked prayers to end "the devastating war in Algeria and the terrible problems it poses to the consciences of many, particularly among the young...
...presenting himself in a virtual continuous popular referendum that he has no trouble winning. But even De Gaulle has sensed discontent in the air, and politicians who accompanied him on Tour No. 12 to eastern France came away persuaded that the President will soon propose "something" to end the Algerian deadlock...
Died. Prince François de France, 25, second son of eleven children of the Count de Paris and thus third in line of succession to the nonexistent throne of France; in a skirmish with Algerian rebels while serving as a second lieutenant with a French army infantry battalion; in Algeria's Kabylia Mountains...
...reply to the objection that there have already been several "free" elections in Algeria, and that in every case the Algerians have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the French, Chanderli declared that the elections have in reality been anything but free. According to the latest Algerian referendum, he said, 92 per cent of the people voted for France. Then, it would seem, only eight per cent of the Algerian population has been able to hold off the French army for six years--and yet that army is the largest ever employed in a colonial...
While the U.S. may be trying to help the Algerians win freedom--Chanderli cited scholarships raised by the NSA for Algerian students--there has been no concrete aid to Algeria from the U.S. government, he declared. The U.S., Chanderli asserted, is more interested in maintaining its role with the Soviet Union in world power politics than in helping the small nations of the world gain independence...