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Politicians of the FLN executive committee are led by 58-year-old Ferhat Abbas, "grand old man" of Algerian politics and a onetime moderate, whose failure to wring concessions from France has turned him into an embittered extremist. His close aide is Dr. Mohammed Lamine-Debaghine, 40, bitterly anti-French veteran nationalist who is subject to bouts of depression caused by attacks of neuralgia that partially paralyze his face. Both he and Abbas have served as Deputies in the French Assembly...
...first days of independence, extremist Moslem traditionalists in Lahore and surrounding areas grabbed unveiled women, shaved their heads and spat upon them. Shocked by these indignities, a group of progressive army officers began using their own unveiled wives and daughters as decoys to catch the fanatics. Begum Khatidja G.A. Khan is Deputy Minister for Social Services in West Pakistan. Says she: "The mullahs cannot make time stand still. We must be affected by the changing world." Said a Karachi newspaperman last week. "The Pakistani male has had it-from all four wives." When in 1954 then Prime Minister Mohammed...
...Testament, Asch was saddened by Jew-Gentile divisions, stressed in his work the common roots of Judaism and Christianity ("For me, it is one culture and one civilization"). He came to the U.S. in 1910, became naturalized in 1920, but left in 1953 "with a broken heart," after some extremist members of the Jewish community attacked an apparent shift in his views toward Christianity ("Intolerance among my own people has been too much of a handicap for me to work"), eventually (1956) settled in Israel, where, he said, he found peace of mind...
...which Nasser has raged almost as unceasingly as have his Russian friends. By a design, Ike's special ambassador, ex-Congressman James P. Richards, is touring friendly Middle East lands first, explaining U.S. aid-without-strings, thereby increasing the isolation of Nasser and adding to the pressures against extremist regimes in Jordan and Syria...
...offering one of the most trenchant of all indictments of poverty. It lies also in his demonstrating the folly of all absolute positions, in his showing how good and evil must always jostle and even beget one another. But Shaw, with his new non-reformer's zeal, turns extremist...