Word: arons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON on Saturday broke one of the oldest and strongest traditions of the University by printing an account of a lecture given in academic privacy. This lecture, given by Professor Aron on Algeria, was arranged as part of the work of Government 195, and its strictly academic character was explained to those who attended. Your reporter evidently came late, for I cannot believe that his offense was intentional. Unfortunately his story, though in itself a better-than-average newspaper account of a lecture, is a demonstration of the importance of the rule against such reporting...
...headline on this story (and to a much smaller degree the story itself) describes Professor Aron as critical of De Gaulle and the FLN. This headline might lead some of your readers to suppose that Professor Aron used a Harvard platform to press the personal political views which he has put forth in France as a French citizen. In fact he did nothing of the sort; on the contrary he gave particular attention to the task of presenting clearly the attitudes of Frenchmen and Algerians with whom he himself does not agree...
...Aron, a visiting research professor of Government, discounted suggestions that the UN could supervise an election in Algeria. "As events in the Congo have shown, the UN army is not a fighting army, and it could not protect against...
Noted for his commentary on the problem of disarmament in the face of fear, Aron stated the basic political difference over Algeria this way: "De Gaulle's point is that he cannot negotiate with the FLN as the free Algerian government, for that would recognize Algerian independence. But the FLN cannot stop fighting, because that is their trump card...
When de Gaulle came to power, Aron said, "he was a representative of everything to everybody." His real view today is that he is reconciled with the idea of a new Algerian state, Aron maintained. "And he is far too clever to believe that he can build a new Algeria without the nationalists who fought...