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Author Burns is at his best when remembering the shapes, sounds and smells of Naples, Algiers and Casablanca. His sections dealing with Naples' huge VD hospital and an evening spent in a homosexuals' hangout are first-rate. But too much of the best writing is descriptive reporting that does little to advance Gallery as a novel. Characters, good & bad, are used to prove a point or to support an emotional stand. With all its unevenness, Gallery shows more promise than most U.S. novels of World War II. But like many soldiers who came back itching to write...
...From Casablanca TIME Correspondent André Laguerre cabled: "The French settlers are worried about governmental instability in Paris, worried about Socialist direction of imperial politics because they think Socialist theorizing does not fit in well with the hard realities of administering a mixed nation (Arab and Berber) where democratic slogans have little meaning for the natives...
...evidence of the unrest in the gaudy, noisy streets of Casablanca? It would be wrong to give an exaggerated impression of panic, but. there is some such evidence. I note more sullen faces than were to be seen during the war years. Ahmed Moulouya Hadj, a bearded, bronzed Arab who has brought his vegetables from the sub-Atlantic plains to the Casablanca markets for the last 14 years, told me: 'We farmers are no longer the only ones who count. The country is becoming industrialized, with new habits, new men and new ideas. I am not sure what will...
...Place de la Concorde. But in the warm spring air the paraders sauntered listlessly, shouting their war cries with only perfunctory venom. A few demonstrators shouted: "A has la politique du dollar!" (Down with dollar diplomacy!)* in front of a Marxist movie from the U.S.-A Night in Casablanca, starring Groucho, Chico and Harpo. A woman stood weeping as she watched the Red Flags flutter close to France's own tricolore. "In the days of the occupation," she said, "Nazi flags, too, were sandwiched between French tricolores. They were tricolores without meaning. Now it is the same...
...almost unbelievable luck during the Casablanca naval battle. More 6-inch and 5-inch shells were thrown by the light cruiser Brooklyn alone than by the entire U.S. fleets against the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago. But at Casablanca U.S. ships suffered only five minor hits, while the French lost more than a dozen ships, sunk, missing or disabled. The Massachusetts almost took a spread of four torpedoes at once, but maneuvered between Nos. 3 & 4 of the spread, with No. 4 only 15 feet to starboard...