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Ultras and Actionists. He was not the only one preparing for action. The shadowy leaders of the Algerian rebellion, working mostly out of Cairo, were issuing promissory notes: 60,000 francs ($170) for every loyal Algerian or Frenchman killed by their hired assassins. To show the U.N. how powerful their influence is after two years of civil war in Algeria, they ordered an eight-day general strike of all Arabs in Algeria and France. Algerians literally sniffed the arrival of the killers whose job was to make the strike stick: young Arab gunmen who invariably spend a portion of their...
...partly a moral inquest into types of French behavior under the Nazis. The dead man's vengeance-crying mother will not rest till she has found his betrayer; simultaneously, the playwrights set up a kind of hearing-not just for outright heroes and traitors, but for one Frenchman with a certain tolerance of Germans during the war, for another with a certain tolerance of collaborationists after...
...Humanité, though hampered by the fact that most refugees were plainly workingmen, seized every chance to prove that if they could not be damned as rich reactionaries, they could at least be branded as fascists. L'Humanité delightedly front-paged a story claiming that one Frenchman had discovered an ex-Gestapo torturer among them. More purposefully, Hungarian-speaking comrades were smuggled into the camps to spread tales of alarm. They told refugees that they would get lower pay than Frenchmen in any job they were given, that if they accepted work at all, they would lose their...
...drawn by Author Clément, a Frenchman who has lived in Mexico and Colombia, Juanito has animal strength and animal cunning. In a time of trouble he might have become another Pancho Villa. In a time of peace he is simply an anachronism, tolerated by the señores because he keeps his village quiet, but readily expendable when he grows too big and too troublesome. Sitting in his death cell, Juanito reflects that of all his crimes the most serious was the driving of the schoolteacher from Naolinco. Too late he recognizes that "the schoolmaster had been right...
...time most correspondents got to Port Said last fortnight, the fighting was virtually over-and Paris-Match Photographer-Reporter Jean Roy, 34, had the situation well in hand. The big (6 ft., 190 Ibs.), handsome Frenchman (real name: Yves Leleu) was living up to his legend as the fire-eating knight-errant of war journalism. In the 24 hours since he had landed with the first French ground troops, Roy had taken over two jeeps and a Chevrolet truck, daubed each with a new license plate, "Balzac 00-24" (the phone number of Paris-Match), and whirled through a typical...