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...Silent Enigma. To the Moslems who two weeks ago stormed through the big cities of Algiers, Oran and Bone shouting their support of the F.L.N. rebels, De Gaulle cried, "Yes, we are proposing peace! We are ready at any time to receive the delegates of the people who are fighting us." In the talks with the F.L.N. rebels, which collapsed at Melun last summer, De Gaulle had insisted on discussing only the conditions of a ceasefire, and the rebels were not interested. Now he was ready to talk, "especially with the leaders of the rebellion," about "all the conditions under...
...surprising that de Gaulle, unique in so many respects, has earned world-wide reputation for political eccentricity. Such a man would be considered a total enigma, were it not for the fact that he has filled three volumes with explanations of himself and his actions. Indeed, a careful reading Salvation, the third and final volume of his war memoirs, leaves few questions about the man's thinking unanswered. Here is a unique political figure-a world-historical personality with the ability and inclination to explain himself with detachment...
...Sept. 5 issue you suggest an enigma in regard to the fair lady on the Washington Capitol dome. She is "Fertility" and was so designated by Sculptor Crawford 97 years...
Ross, by British Playwright Terence (Separate Tables) Rattigan, opened last week with Alec Guinness as Lawrence of Arabia. A complex, 16-scene production, the play reaches brilliantly, perhaps too slickly, into its legendary hero's mind, illuminating but never completely resolving the essential enigma: Was Lawrence the spectacular hero who inspired and led the Arabs in their World War I revolt against the Turks, or was he a lying, unstable charlatan...
...Turks, and Rattigan plainly suggests that in the attack the will-god broke and fell, as Lawrence realized at last the truth of his own perversion. Not everyone agreed with Playwright Rattigan's picture of Lawrence, but, wrote Critic T. C. W^orsely: "As one view of the enigma, this will impose itself for a long time." Rhinoceros, Avant-Gardist Eugene lonesco's new play, opened with Sir Laurence Olivier triumphing over the din-and-delirium direction of Orson Welles, lonesco's famed earlier one-acters dealt opaquely with such subjects as a girl with three noses...