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Aron has no categorical answer to the question that troubles every Frenchman: Can a French minority remain, one million against eight million, in an Algerian Republic? But, he warns, "the longer the pacifying war continues, the more the chances of peaceful cohabitation between the two communities diminish." In the long run the men who govern an Algerian Republic, "unless they are carried away by mad blindness, cannot ignore the need they will have of France." For Aron the crux of the question is the formation of this Algerian state-"a difficult enterprise, and nobody can guarantee its success...
Helpless Minister. There were Frenchmen in Algiers who risked their lives to save Moslems. During one struggle, a middleaged, bespectacled Frenchman broke through a crowd of young hoodlums, put his arm around a bleeding Moslem, and amid jeers and threats led him away. In the center of the city another crowd, storming through the streets, was stopped by a paratroop colonel. "Our fight here must be dignified and worthy!" shouted the colonel. "Go home quietly." The crowd cheered him, broke into the Marseillaise, then went on rioting. Sitting in his office in the gleaming white government building, Minister Resident Robert...
France's President René Coty, a schoolmaster's son from Normandy, is often seen but seldom heard. Unannounced and unexpected, Coty took to the radio in an unprecedented midnight broadcast from Paris. His voice shook with emotion as he said: "There is no Frenchman in all the world, there is not a man with a heart who was not overcome with pity and horror in learning of the massive atrocities. These abominations are not only the act of a few bandits. The killers continue to execute the orders of their chiefs, of the same chiefs who, only...
...Gaumont; Continental) is an American's idea of a Frenchman's idea of an Englishman's idea of France. The American is Director Preston Sturges, a comic genie (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) who was popped back in the bottle by Hollywood some years ago, but who recently popped out in Paris, where he made this film. The Frenchman is Journalist Pierre Daninos and the Englishman is Major Thompson, the hero of The Notebooks of Major Thompson (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955), a collection of Daninos' sometimes hilarious feature stories that has sold more than...
...pantomime, and the sound track is occupied by an off-screen voice which bears the same relation to the film as an M.C. to a series of blackouts. At least half the movie is made up of wacky little vaudeville routines, in which a stock Englishman and a stock Frenchman alternate the pratfalls. Major (ret.) William Marmaduke Thompson, C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E. (played by Jack Buchanan, the British George M. Cohan), is a cuff-shooting old harrumph who has left his best years East of Suez. Monsieur Taupin (played by Noel-Noel, a comedian who looks like a French edition...