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Last week, with this in mind, the U.S. decided to give him the kind of public backing it has hitherto withheld. To Paris flew U.S. Information Agency Chief George V. Allen to address the 50th anniversary session of the Comité France-Amerique. Said Allen: "We believe General de Gaulle epitomizes much of the greatness, the strength of purpose and the high dignity of France. We are immensely heartened by the restored political stability and economic equilibrium of France." He praised "your initiative in creating another community, that of the eleven African states and Madagascar with France, which has also...
Actually, France has maintained this surface harmony largely because the leading party in the land, in the years immediately following World War II, has beaten the drum for independence and boycotted all elections since 1952. Each year Sylvanus Olympio, 56, head of the Comité de l'Unité Togolaise (C.U.T.), journeyed to Manhattan to plead Togoland's cause before the U.N. He is a graduate of the left-wing-leaning London School of Economics, and Togoland's top businessman. As a result of his boycott, an Assembly was elected without a single member of the opposition...
Dancing Out the Love. Sponsor of the affair was the Comité Officiel des Fètes de Paris, which likes to start each tourist season with a cultural eye-opener. The committee began with the idea of using the Louvre's 3½-acre Cour Carrée, one side of which is dominated by a superb Renaissance clock tower. What could be more appropriate than to stage a version of the Renaissance tale of Romeo and Juliet? And what treatment of that theme could be more grandiose than French Composer Hector Berlioz' half-symphony, half-opera...
...honored in Spain as the stubborn and victorious commander of the Franco forces in the bloody Civil War siege of Oviedo (1936) which lasted 91 days. But one night two years ago Franco police arrested Monarchist Aranda in a brewery where he had been meeting fellow members of the Comité Imperio de Coordination, a clandestine coordinating committee of anti-Franco underground groups. Aranda's civil war record bought him his freedom. He went into retirement, dividing his time between the reading room of the Club Casino de Madrid and his apartment. Police kept an eye on him. Last...
...Comité Imperio, surviving the brewery raid, had made contact with exiled Spanish socialists in France. Three months ago in Toulouse the socialists held a convention attended by delegates of the American Federation of Labor. The deteriorating economy of Spain, recent strikes in Barcelona and other cities, the reported illness of General Franco (he is expected soon to undergo an operation for a bladder ailment) spurred hopes of a new regime in Spain. The A.F.L.'s European representative, able Irving Brown, made a careful roundup of information available in Toulouse. Brown's conclusions, as reported last week...