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Then, in the small hours of the morning, De Gaulle recorded an appeal to be broadcast at dawn to the rebellious Europeans of Algeria. "This is a bad blow struck at France, in the heart of France," he began. "I have taken leadership of the state to lift up our country . . . I tell you plainly and in all simplicity that if I should fail in my task, the unity, the prestige, the fate of France will be compromised." The broadcast finished, he turned to an aide and asked: "What do you think of it?" Unhappily, the aide replied with...
With that, Mr. Fitz supervised the washing down of Progressing, peered at his ankles and gave instruction for the workouts the following dawn. The stables were fading into dusky shadow when Mr. Fitz finally left the track...
...dawn broke on the main day of the festival last week, 20,000 holy men-at least 1,000 of them naked and covered with ashes-made up a procession down to the river with banners and bugles, painted elephants and a brass band. "Jai, jai Ram [Glory to God]!" cried the marchers. Once in the water, they scrubbed themselves furiously and dunked their heads repeatedly-some carrying out elaborate ablutions, praying all the while to the rising sun and dodging the boats bringing other pilgrims out to the point where the rivers meet...
...novel is that the past will not stay buried, and must be exorcised. Like Shaw's previous novels (The Troubled Air, Lucy Crown}, the latest is more make-believe than believable. But its underlying mood is dispiritingly palpable, like a cigarette-lacerated tongue on a hungover dawn...
...Darkness and the Dawn, Costain...