Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wrecker," "the Big Alley Cat," "a born secret policeman," and "the most dangerous man in France." However unfair some of these epithets may be, dynamic Jacques Soustelle today at 47 has more political potential than any other Frenchman save Charles de Gaulle. It is a potential respectfully conceded even by many who fear...
...Bonjour, Commissar." Along the way, Soustelle came to share Latin American outcries about Yankee imperialism ("Even that which Americans do with good intention becomes tainted because there is such a difference in psychology"), and developed so strong a left-wing slant that when he joined the Free French in 1940, a right-wing Gaullist received him with the sour greeting: "Bonjour, Commissar." Like most other French leftists, Soustelle supported Socialist Leon Blum's prewar Popular Front with the Communists. In Mexico one of his great friends was Communist Painter Diego Rivera, who was at that time, Soustelle recalls...
...present position in the political spectrum, even Soustelle himself cannot define it. "In social matters," he said last week, "I could today be classified as a complete man of the left. But I do not admit that to be a good republican one must deny one's national feelings." The issues that once separated right from left in France no longer seem of primary importance to Jacques Soustelle. What is of primary importance...
Soustelle, whose very name had come to suggest conspiracy and revolt against legitimate authority, was somewhat of an embarrassment to De Gaulle, and in the first months of De Gaulle's reign, relations between the two grew increasingly formal. Even after the Union for the New Republic-the self-proclaimed Gaullist party organized by Soustelle-swept to an overwhelming majority in the Assembly of the Fifth Republic, De Gaulle continued to regard Soustelle as too controversial to have conspicuous power. The premiership went to Gaullist Lawyer Michel Debré, a relative unknown; for Soustelle there was an agglomeration...
Lunar Landscapes. Soustelle's empire is only a part of the world's largest desert; by usual geographers' reckoning, the Sahara runs from the Atlas Mountains south to the Niger and from Africa's Atlantic Coast east to the Red Sea. But even the French Community's half of the Sahara is awesome in size (1,600,000 sq. mi. v. 213,000 for France) and bewildering in its diversity. Barely a seventh of it is the movie desert of The Sheik-the vast expanses of sand wind-blown into golden dunes. The rest...