Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The F.L.N. command in Cairo readily admitted that the announcement of a government-in-exile was a calculated countermeasure to De Gaulle's expected victory in this week's referendum. Unlike the voters in France's colonies, Algeria's voters cannot choose independence by voting non...
Soldiers on the Hustings. Aware that the phrase "Algerian-type election" has long been a byword for fraud, the Gaullists are making every effort to assure an honest count, have sent hundreds of volunteer election commissioners from France to administer the balloting. For the first time, De Gaulle has allowed...
Vote by Fear. The F.L.N. is as active as the French army. Orders have gone out to boycott the elections, and Moslems have been told to leave the towns and hide out in the hills and forests until after election day. The rebels warn that they will mine the roads...
The vote this week may well be the first "honest" election ever held in Algeria. But, after four years of war and reprisals, attacks and counterattacks, terrorism and torture, it seems likely that the dominant sentiment of the Moslems will not be reason or political passion, but fear-fear of...
Though the "Merlin law" offered the 2,500 inmates of Italy's 543 licensed houses the opportunity to enter "centers of social re-education," no one really believed that last week's shutdown would end prostitution in Italy. Even Deputy Merlin-who four months ago lost her campaign...