Word: arons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Resistance hero, is the center of the tough and unyielding French position on Algeria. So far, it is the dominant one in French politics. But more and more Frenchmen are beginning to talk more openly about "solutions" for Algeria. None has been so outspoken as thin, hawk-nosed Raymond Aron, respected French political commentator and Sorbonne professor. In a slim book, The Algerian Tragedy, published last week and an immediate sensation in Paris, Aron argues that only false pride prevents Frenchmen from recognizing Algeria's "vocation" for independence...
Humiliation. Says Aron: "If France had voluntarily accorded in 1954 (in Tunisia and Morocco) what she finally accorded under the pressure of terrorism, she would not be suffering from this intolerable feeling of humiliation." Aron's advice: negotiate with the Algerian rebels, slowly transfer power to the Moslem nationalists, and spend a fraction of the cost of the war repatriating Algeria's Europeans to France. Until recently Aron was as insistent as most Frenchmen that only by holding Algeria could France continue a great power...
Policy of Grandeur. Raymond Aron, the Walter Lippmann of France, who writes in the conservative Figaro, has now changed his mind about continuing to be tough in Algeria, believes loss of the empire is inescapable in the near future because "in 'the long run a country cannot play a role abroad out of proportion to its means." Aron, who blames a "policy of grandeur" for France's colonial mess, advises an approach to the National Front or "at least to recognize the vocation of Algeria to independence...
...RAYMOND ARON...
Newsman Raymond Aron at 50 is France's No. 1 commentator. A university professor until World War II, he joined General Charles de Gaulle in London, edited the Free French newspaper La France Libre. Since 1947 he has been chief columnist for the conservative Le Figaro, has proved himself a sturdy friend of the U.S., a lucid opponent of Marxism, a devastating critic of neutralism. In this article, written for TIME, he states the French case in North Africa...