Word: algerians
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...what Henry Cabot Lodge used to term "American hegemony" in the United Nations poses an immediate problem: what is American policy going to be in the impending General Assembly debate on Algeria? The Asian and African states will certainly press hard in this session for internationalization of the Algerian problem; they will propose a cease-fire and plebiscite under UN supervision. It is equally certain that France will hear of no such thing, and the United States will then be in awkward position--a position to which they only realistic solution will be support of France and rejection...
...necessary postulate for any real settlement of the Algerian crisis is a French government strong enough to command the support of the French people and the obedience of the military and colons in Algeria. This is an obvious point. Not so obvious is the fact that de Gaulle's regime is the only French government in seven years which stands a better-than-even chance of staying in the saddle while it negotiates an Algerian peace...
...Never hesitant about suspending magazines and newspapers that go too far in criticizing his Algerian policies, De Gaulle was even tougher last week on 142 writers, teachers, film stars and journalists (ranging from Leftist Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to Academy Award-winning Actress Simone Signoret), who signed a petition urging French soldiers to desert rather than take up arms against the Algerian rebels. Le Grand Charles decreed punishment rare in any country calling itself a democracy. Government employees who signed or support the petition, such as teachers, face suspension at one-third pay; actors and directors were forbidden employment...
...somber pages were reports on worldly woes, from the U.N.-to the Congo. But it was an article near the bottom of Page One that commanded the French citizen's closest attention. Signed by "Sirius," the piece predicted that unless Charles de Gaulle soon ends the Algerian war, France will plunge back into chaos worse than that from which he rescued...
...literary angry man, Jean-Paul Sartre. Hollow-chested, tuberculous Jeanson escaped the police raid that caught his followers. Three weeks after the raid, Jeanson further mortified the police by holding a secret press conference in a Left Bank hideout, where he defended his organization on the grounds that Algerian independence is inevitable and, when it comes, F.L.N. leaders should know that not all French men opposed them...