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Across the Mediterranean to troubled North Africa poured the greatest flow of reinforcements since the days when Rommel's Afrika Korps held sway. The French cruiser Montcalm landed a battalion of French infantrymen at Casablanca, and a steamer brought 400 more; nine battalions started moving to Algeria, following the six from Germany that had already arrived; transport aircraft brought naval commandos. Back in France, 100,000 conscripts had their period of service lengthened indefinitely; 50,000 reservists were recalled to the colors. All told, the rapid build-up brought French strength in colonial North Africa to some...
Another Legion task force mopped up around Oued Zem. Under Colonel Fran-gois Boreill (who led the fine French battalion in Korea), 4,000 or more Legionnaires, supported by two tank companies, drew a tight steel net around the Smala tribal area. After two days of bitter fighting in the barren, rocky uplands, Boreill closed the net. Soon afterwards, he spotted a band of Berbers approaching his command post, waving white flags...
...Alain is the famous proprietor of Paris' most chichi beauty salon, a bewildering institution where the elegant clientele has its hair dried in battalion formation, and even the elevator boy speaks English. As Alain, in a ruffled shirt, Fernandel minces convincingly through a parade of slapstick situations, slathering cold cream on a dowager's jowls, roguishly examining a shapely leg, fawning over the telephone...
Imperative Duty. The French were dismayed and alarmed. Since last month's riots in Casablanca (TIME, July 25), 60,000 of their troops have been standing guard in Morocco, but more, apparently, were needed. From its limited reserves in Europe, the French army flew a battalion of marines and a company of security police to beef up the Moroccan garrison. It even took space on commercial airliners to fetch hundreds of Senegalese NCOs from their units in Indo-China...
...years old. They waved pictures of Mohammed ben Youssef and shouted for his return. Hours before, similar gangs had caught an Arab who was suspected of collaborating with the French. They stripped and doused him with gasoline, then burned him alive. The French brought up 30 tanks and a battalion of green-bereted paratroopers. In the Carrières Centrales, a warren of packing-case tenements, the Arabs built barricades. Young men shot stones at the waiting troops from slingshots; others ripped open their shirts and dared the Legionnaires to fire. Sometimes the soldiers did fire, at first high...