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...they are les Bicots, but respectable Parisians call them les Algériens. After 1946, when the people of Algeria were granted full French citizenship, they began pouring into France at the rate of 30,000 a year. Arriving in Paris on the slow trains from the Midi, they drift with their bundles into the old, revolutionary districts of Belleville and Ménilmontant, where whole blocks now have the sound and smell of Algerian medinas. Only one in five of the Algerians in Paris has regular employment; the others live in the tradition of the Paris demimonde, vociferously free...
When Thuringian workers were being egged on to revolt against the Weimar Republic in 1923, Walter Ulbricht was one of two Reds who doomed them by persuading Moscow that they needed no arms, "because every Thuringian worker already has a rifle behind his stove." When untrue rumors began to drift to Moscow in the '20s about the intelligentsia, which had assumed command of the German party, Zinoviev, the boss of the Comintern, went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must...
...broke the world discus record a fortnight ago with a toss of 190 ft. | in.; Kansas' Wes Santee, 21, who last month ran the fastest mile in U.S. history (4:02.4)* None of these heroes bettered his own best last week, but just as the crowd started to drift away, it got a new hero and a new world record...
...cabinet was formed by the Nationalist Party's Dr. Wilopo. No Communist, Wilopo promised to stop the drift to the West, and prepared the way for the country's first general election. In the prevailing climate of anti-Western opinion, the Communists drew the left wing of Wilopo's party into a "National Front" coalition. Directed by Moscow-trained Communist Alimin Prawirodirdjo, financed by Peking, the National Front began attacking the government, brought the country to the brink of civil war last October on the issue of military leadership. Only by yielding leadership of the army...
...discreet intimates and to his diary, George V sometimes confided his personal feelings about the drift of the times. He bitterly opposed recognition of Soviet Russia, a government he held responsible for the "abominable murder" of Cousin Nicky, the Czar. In 1917 there was a fluttering of republicanism, and H. G. Wells declared it unthinkable that Britain should struggle longer under "an alien and uninspiring Court." George was incensed. "I may be uninspiring," he thundered to a visitor, "but I'll be damned if I'm alien...