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Pardon to Death? Djamila Bouhired last week was in solitary confinement in the massively grim Barberousse fortress, overlooking the city of Algiers. All legal appeals have failed, and unless she is pardoned by President Coty of France, she will walk to the guillotine as have 127 other Algerians in the 3½-year rebellion. Outraged at the dubious procedures of her trial, French newspapers from the Communist L'Humanite to the conservative Le Figaro to the right-wing L'Aurore are protesting her coming execution. India's Nehru, Tunisia's Bourguiba, Russia's Voroshilov have...
...freedom fight. Howling with anger, the rioters fell on the hated Security cops, beat four of them to death. The rest retreated inside the building, broke out machine guns and rifles, and began firing for their lives. The battle raged bitterly for nine hours before the police fortress had been battered and set afire by army tank cannons; then the surviving cops surrendered and were trucked off to prison under army convoy...
Into Lady Blessington's London salon one evening in 1846 marched "a little man, four and a half feet high . . . with huge moustaches and pigs' eyes." He was Prince Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Bonaparte, pretender to the French throne and newly escaped from the French fortress of Ham, where he had been dumped by King Louis Philippe for' trying to nab the throne. Exiled Louis was in search of a treasure chest from which to subsidize a fresh coup. One of Lady Blessington's guests, a beautiful "tenth rate" Shakespearean actress known as Miss...
...small restaurant not far from the Tauride Palace. Roll was called. Rosettes of red silk and entry tickets were handed out. We exchanged news and rumors-it was said that the delegates who had been arrested by the Reds were now to be released from the Peter Paul Fortress. This Bolshevik "gesture" was widely commented on. It seemed a clear sign of yielding on the part of an unyielding regime. The situation appeared to be developing more favorably than anyone would have, thought...
...Chairs and The Lesson, Rumanian-French Eugene Ionesco, whose work has been about equally hailed for its meaning and hooted for lack of any, had his first professional Manhattan hearing. In The Chairs, dubbed "a tragic farce," an aged couple who live in a sort of wave-washed fortress give a party for a horde of guests who are only so many chairs. After the old man (Eli Wallach) has delivered a "message" about the world, he and his wife throw themselves into the water. Swimming in symbolism, The Chairs readily enough suggests people's enisled fate in life...