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...S.A.O. is Jean-Jacques Susini, 28, a gifted pied-noir of Corsican descent. His ideas are frankly fascist ("Why don't we come out and say so?") but, publicly at least, they are devoid of racial overtones?largely because the 130,000 Jews of Algeria are pro Algérie Fran??aise, and because S.A.O. propaganda has to insist, preposterous though the claim is, that the majority of Moslems love the S.A.O. better than the F.L.N. Susini, the young doctrinaire, and Salan, the old politician-general, have become close friends. He listens intently to Susini's urgings that France needs...
...army to an uprising. Salan is convinced that the soldiers will not open fire on Algeria's Europeans, and that a sizable body of troops will actually join him. De Gaulle believes that the majority of the army will support the government because 1) it recognizes that Algérie fran??aise is dead, and 2) it does not wish to go against the will of the French nation, which is overwhelmingly for an Algerian settlement. De Gaulle guesses that when the French-F.L.N. treaty is signed, the S.A.O. might seize Algiers, Oran, and possibly Bone. He is betting that...
...national panic and the Government's fall. In short, Premier Laval could not have the promised papers last week. German secrets possessed by Britain must be concealed from France, her Wartime ally with all that that implied. Soon the official French attitude was made known by Minister of Marine Fran??ois Piétri as the French Navy deployed before him in maneuvers at Brest. Said he: "This may cause us to doubt not the friendship of Britain but her pru-dence...
...questions to Editor Brisbane, printed questions and answers (copyrighted by Mr. Brisbane) last week. Most significant were Editor Brisbane's replies concerning the influence of his father, Albert Brisbane, who in the 1830's and 1840's was the principal disciple in the U. S. of the French Sociologist (Fran??ois) Charles Marie Fourier...
...been terrific lest Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI should forbid Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano, Archbishop of Palermo, to officiate. Well the Holy Father knew that at this wedding there would be present those two accursed agitators for the Royalist cause in France, Editor Leon Daudet of L'Action Fran??aise and his doughty fellow editor, Charles Maurras. If they were present as guests, declared the Supreme Pontiff in his final ultimatum to Monseigneur le Due de Guise, then no Cardinal could possibly officiate...