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...Organization. At Salan's signal, pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...replied with automatic arms and hand grenades. Fleeing, the attackers left behind them one dead S.A.O. terrorist under a bush. He was the first open battle casualty of the S.A.O., and is already being hailed among ultras as the No. 1 martyr of Algérie Française. Colonel Leroy, keeping his own casualties secret, moved out next night to another secret headquarters...
...which side are the savages? On which side is barbarism?" His answer is that they are now on the French side. He hears the equivalent of the native tom-toms in the automobile horns with which the French ultras like to beat out the rhythm Al-gé-rie fran-çaise. "The unification of the Algerian people is producing the disintegration of the French people. Terror has left Africa and established itself here in France. Violence thus comes full circle, going this way and that way until, step by step, we are going native...
...doctrine seems to be most firmly held by the illustrators. Among these practitioners it seems to be an article of faith that pictures in a child's book should be doodled childishly. Arthur, the Dolphin Who Didn't See Venice, by John Malcolm Brinnin, illustrated by Andre François (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $2.95), is a cautionary example. Venice, the most beautiful city in the world, is a crude sand castle, and the dolphin, the most beautiful of marine animals, is a mudfish. The people who conspire in this sort of thing are doubtless dutifully-minded toward...
...French. Big names still show up, too: Thornton Wilder, Gene Kelly, William Shirer, James Jones. Playwright Brendan Behan even turns up sober. But, a good part of the present clientele is French. Jean-Paul Sartre and his constant companion, Simone de Beauvoir, make Harry's their regular hangout. Françoise Sagan uses Harry's for her tristes, and so do a growing number of young French playwrights, film directors and actors...