Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest on his staggering electoral triumph, France's Charles de Gaulle last week moved directly to the land whose troubles brought him to power, and whose difficulties remain his biggest unsolved problem: Algeria. No ordinary colonial war, the Algerian revolt is the product of 128 years of conflict and cooperation, of intimacy and antagonism, between the French and Moslems of Algeria. The rebels who fight France hang out in Cairo, pray toward Mecca, but talk in French, and invoke the democratic ideals that France has taught them. For the story of the men and motives behind the savage struggle...
Although Sorokin recognized hints of the new emerging culture in fields as diverse as science, sociology, and the fine arts, he felt that its conflict with firmly entrenched traces of the old "sensate" culture could only point to more violent struggles in the future. As a result, in 1937 he was able to discount the optimistic hopes of many of his colleagues for a lasting universal peace, and instead said mankind must look forward to an age of "bigger and better wars." Sorokin noted that since that time his most severe critics have been banished...
...Pollster Lubell, what all the conflict added up to was Republican confusion: "Although the Republicans are everywhere on the defensive, one gets the feeling that their potential strength is much greater than the voting trend indicates. In fact the Republican voting forces today seem like a leaderless army. Surprisingly large numbers of voters complain, 'We don't know what the Republican Party stands for.' Whether at this late date the President can answer that question may make the difference between a rout and a close election...
Amid the bombast of demagogues and the protests of mothers, some potential moderates are hoping to translate the integration battle into a more general social conflict. Vague fears and noisy rhetoric have identified the desegregation process with other ideological issues, for men who otherwise would have gracefully acquiesced. Thus certain natives of border states, having quietly accepted integration in their own communities, devote themselves to their neighbors' resistance efforts...
...referendum should give de Gaulle the popular legitimacy he needs and wants. The subsequent course of the new state will depend on two things: Algeria and the November elections. Whether de Gaulle will invest his authority in an attempt at putting a rapid end to the Algerian conflict remains to be seen, for the margin of action is so small that the referendum is not likely to make a big difference...