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...they began pouring into France at the rate of 30,000 a year. Arriving in Paris on the slow trains from the Midi, they drift with their bundles into the old, revolutionary districts of Belleville and Ménilmontant, where whole blocks now have the sound and smell of Algerian medinas. Only one in five of the Algerians in Paris has regular employment; the others live in the tradition of the Paris demimonde, vociferously free, but desperately poor...
...tail end of the Communist Party's afternoon parade came 2,000 olive-skinned Algerians, marching in disciplined formation and bearing posters demanding the release from jail of Algerian Nationalist Leader Messali Hadj. At the Place de la Nation, a sudden rainstorm sent paraders and bystanders rushing for shelter. When police tried to hold back the stampede, the Algerians overwhelmed the barricades and began attacking with stones, bottles, chairs and broken barriers. Riot squads came sirening to the scene, threw a cordon around the Place de la Nation, opened fire with rifles. When it was all over, six Algerians...
Desert Legion (Universal-International), a tepid melodrama set against the blazing sands of the Algerian desert, has no meteorologists, but it presents Alan Ladd as a French Foreign Legionnaire who stumbles on to a mysterious city named Madara, beyond a hidden pass in the Iraouen Mountains. Legionnaire Ladd never had it so good as he does in Madara. He takes the Algerian equivalent of a bubble bath, and is entertained by sword dancers while the emir's gorgeous, red-haired daughter (Arlene Dahl) feeds him sweetmeats by torchlight. Unfortunately, this pleasant state of affairs is menaced by a villain...
...curtain parted on Rossini's frisky operatic romp, An Italian Lady in Algiers, and the crowd saw Coloratura Dobbs, cast as the dusky charmer Elvira, in stage center, surrounded by sumptuously costumed Algerian nobles. Her part had no arias, but her bright, sure voice led sweetly and gracefully a series of swiftly paced quartets, quintets and sextets. When it was all over, she got a round of warmhearted applause that was echoed next day by the press...
...light of flare shells, the war in Indo-China moved into the seventh year. Said a red-haired Foreign Legionnaire: "We now have the oldest war in the world." To the "Moles of Nasan" the usually frugal French commissary sent Australian beefsteaks, fried potatoes, vegetables, fresh bread, Algerian wine and 3,000 bottles of champagne-one bottle for every four men in the dusty, embattled airstrip. Thai and Vietnamese troops got frozen meat, dried fish and rice; the North Africans had wine, live sheep and goats, brought in by airlift. In a dugout mess 25 feet underground, Nasan Commander...