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Withering on the Vine. This year, half of Algeria's 1,000,000 Europeans have fled; the French government tried to minimize this exodus as a "seasonal departure," to which the satiric weekly Le Canard Enchaine replied: "A seasonal departure which takes place once every 132 years." The wine harvest, which provides 50% of Algeria's exports, is withering on the vine as farmers leave for France, and one of the best wheat crops in history will barely top last year's drought harvest...
Unpursued Lead. Despite De Gaulle's indignation, Paris was alive with the rumor that a deal had been made in which Salan's silence was the price of clemency. The weekly Canard Enchainé hinted at such a bargain in an issue published 18 hours before the verdict was handed down. In his statement to the court, Salan made the flat charge that in May 1958, when he was military commander in Algeria and led the army's pro-De Gaulle revolt against the Fourth Republic, he was also prepared to conduct a military operation against...
According to legend and some of his clients, Swifty Lazar seldom bothers to read manuscripts he sells, and some people even imply that he could not do so if he wanted to. "A vile canard," complains Swifty, insisting that he spends 90 minutes a day in intensive research. Actually well-educated, he is a lawyer whose practice is now limited to writing the impressive contracts he wangles for his clients...
...peace will remove the threat of war and lead the world to peace." The Russian people have yet to be told that Khrushchev has actually begun testing, and Nehru tactfully avoided mentioning the fact. But his tact earned him nothing. Khrushchev, hacking away on his current canard, replied that "aggressive forces want to plunge the world into another war," and that "in view of the direct threat to the U.S.S.R., we are faced with the need to carry out experimental explosions of nuclear weapons...
Imagination Game. The challenge of the forgeries has sharpened the West's countermeasures. Fed the same canard as the Daily Express, two other European newspapers checked with U.S. authorities before rushing into print-and were persuaded to hold back. Western governments, who used to sulk secretly over forgeries indicating skulduggery by allies, now check these "documents" with each other to establish authenticity. And last July a phony aimed at Latin America was handily aborted by U.S. authorities. It professed to be secret instructions from Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon to U.S. diplomatic posts in South America. Orders were...