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...French women and the killing of a little girl by Algerian rebels. These crimes coincided with news that President de Gaulle had commuted the death sentences of 30 F.L.N. terrorists. "Mistakes are being accumulated, murderers are being pardoned, terrorist outrages continue," said the right-wing Echo d'Alger bitterly. "On May 13 we shall abstain in silence and in mourning unless some new factor occurs...
Last week Echo d'Alger got its "new factor." In Paris, De Gaulle summoned Algerian Deputy Pierre Laffont, the liberal publisher of Echo d'Oran, to a meeting, then authorized Laffont to publish its substance afterwards. De Gaulle managed to excoriate :his French critics in Algeria-and satisfy them at the same time. The F.L.N., De Gaulle assured Laffont, "does not represent Algeria or even the Moslems of Algeria. I have informed all bona fide states that France would immediately withdraw its ambassador from any country that recognized this political organization." De Gaulle had no intentions of negotiating...
...anyone born after World War I, Ruth Suckow's new novel may seem no more contemporary than an old-fashioned Sunday sermon, no closer to modern literature than Horatio Alger. It may be hard to believe that she was once praised as a realist, and that so joyous a literary scalper as Henry Louis Mencken cheered her on and gave her houseroom in his American Mercury. The fact is, Author Suckow has not changed at all, but life has. The Iowa that was her childhood home is still the source of her fictional truth. In The John Wood Case...
Your article about Farmer North is certainly a Horatio Alger story, but with subsidies and soil bank, are we sure he didn't have a helping hand from a rich relative-namely, Uncle...
Dore Schary, onetime production boss of MGM, who is back in movies as an independent writer-producer, has translated this repulsive masterpiece into a snappy, sexy, phony little Horatio Alger story. The book told the story of a young reporter who, while writing the agony column for a New York newspaper, came to feel that he was being stretched upon the cross of the world's suffering. He goes insane and is murdered by one of the suffering souls he is trying to save. And what does it all mean? That nobody in his right mind can love...