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Barely 20 months after it destroyed one French republic, the unrelenting Algerian revolt last week threatened the life of another. Across the wide boulevards of Algiers crackled the sound all France had so long feared to hear-the sound of Frenchmen shooting at Frenchmen...
...Gaulle's insistence on the right of the Algerian people--a million European settlers and nine million North Africans--to choose their own future that led to the uprising Sunday...
...government apparently was moving to prevent any demonstrations Monday in Paris and other cities in support of the Algerian fighters. The Algerian rightwingers have many backers in France. There apparently were no demonstrations in France tonight...
...advisor? Why, none other than the very same Senator Kennedy whom Mr. Chase so vehemently berates. Might we not query Mr. Chase as to how he accounts for Senator Kennedy's vote in favor of the St. Lawrence Seaway. . . . Or let us consider the Senator's prophetic call for Algerian self-determination--to whose selfish interests was he pandering then, all those "piggish, self-centered" Algerian voters in Boston? . . . Not to mention the Senator's courageous stand on the National Defense Education Act's inexcusable loyalty oath and affidavit provisions--undoubtedly brought about by pressure from "Boss Pusey...
...desire and deserve. In the meantime we can only hope that the men elected by "polite name-calling and Madison Avenue sloganeering" will also display statesmanship. Senator Kennedy has displayed a great ability at keeping his name in the papers; but he has not, as his flyer on the Algerian problem demonstrates, displayed ability to do anything beyond saying things; contrast Vice President Nixon's record of effectiveness...