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Faure could read little but hostility in the faces confronting him. The Socialists, who a few days before had saved him by approving his Moroccan policy, did not think his Algerian reforms went far enough. The right-wingers thought they went too far. Most hostile of all were the Gaullists, nominally a part of his majority; they "liked his policy but not his government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Graveyard Smell | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...make any recommendations on Algeria. Indeed, had the French chosen to remain and maneuver instead of flying off in a huff that was more suggestive of guilty conscience than outraged innocence, they might well have persuaded a few delegates to change their minds and thereby table debate of the Algerian case indefinitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Walkout | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...home of 1,000,000 Frenchmen, a region enriched by billions in French investments and subsidies. Its land and its 8,000,000 Moslem natives, the French insist, have been integrated into the French nation on a basis of equality. But the statistics (e.g., average income of an Algerian Moslem family is about one-eighth that of a mainland French family), as well as the vast majority of Algerian natives, disagree. In recent months the disagreement has taken the form of violent nationalist resistance and bloody French reprisals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Walkout | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

While the French colons block reforms (promised as long ago as the Statute of Algeria of 1947), French troops-now swollen to 130,000-patrol cities and hills, meting out punishment and death to suspected nationalists. Last week even the 60 Moslems of the Algerian Assembly, long known as les valets because of their subservience to French desires, took the unheardof step of refusing a summons to meeting; instead, they overwhelmingly rejected the policy of integration with France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Walkout | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...fate of its government at home rested in the shaky hands of a hesitant old man-Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. All week long, Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay telephoned anxiously from Manhattan, in hopes of favorable news to influence the U.N. Assembly vote on the Algerian situation. From Paris, Premier Edgar Faure telephoned urgently to Morocco's Resident General Boyer de Latour; unless Ben Moulay Arafa had "voluntarily" departed before the National Assembly met this week, the Faure government was doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Slow Exit | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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