Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treats France as a junior member of the firm, on a par with West Germany or Italy. Fact is, insists De Gaulle, that France, unlike the Germans or Italians, has "world responsibilities," and unless the U.S. and Britain agree to coordinate their strategy outside Europe (most specifically in Algeria), the alliance is not a genuine...
There is still hatred in Algeria, but increasingly it is the isolated, furtive exception of the Frenchwoman rather than the general fever that prevailed before De Gaulle stepped in a year ago. Two years ago the explosion in the Rue d'Isly would have brought the paratroopers out in force, perhaps led to dozens of arrests, or might have set European mobs to rioting against Moslems in reprisal for terrorist outrages. But last month, an hour after the grenade blast, the crowds on the Rue d'Isly were as thick as ever; most Europeans looked upon the wreckage...
...Affaires." "Papa's Algeria is finished," said Charles de Gaulle recently. The changes that began with De Gaulle's social and economic promises to the Moslems, and with an improved military situation, are visible everywhere, reports TIME Correspondent Edward Behr, who first went to Algeria on assignment in 1952, and has returned often since. The barbed wire has come down. No longer is everyone frisked before entering any cinema, shop or hotel...
...conspiratorial bistros, the talk these days is more likely to be about "les affaires" than assassinations. De Gaulle has made the army his chief economic arm in raising Moslem living standards, and fat army contracts for roads and schools-plus Saharan oil investments-have spread a new prosperity across Algeria...
...Responsible." Alarmed by press accounts of shocking conditions in the regrouped centers, De Gaulle's delegate general in Algeria, Paul Delouvrier, has ordered a halt to further regrouping. Complains one French officer: "For years these people have been dying like flies. But nobody bothered to go have a look. Now that we have brought them down from the hills, we are responsible...