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French President De Gaulle urged recently that his countrymen confront the Algerian dilemma by "looking straight at the problems." But a growing number of Frenchmen were looking apprehensively over their shoulders at M. De Gaulle. The rising tide of suspicion that the government is threatening civil liberties has rocked the nation, which for two years had slept in the absence of any real political life...
...manifesto's resounding effect is largely attributable to the great popular interest in the "Jeanson trial." Professor Francis Jeanson was the leader of an underground network composed largely of intellectuals, Moslem Algerians, and former resistance fighters, supporting the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Along with twenty other Frenchmen and five Algerians, Jeanson was tried for treason this fall, in the same military tribunal where Capt. Dreyfus was sentenced as a traitor in 1894. The defense claimed, "When a people resists oppression, it is entitled to every respect... and all the help one can give it." Jeanson, however, was sentenced...
...Paris newspaper Le Monde reflected the troubled conscience of Frenchmen faced once more by crisis at home and war abroad that could neither be won nor ended. "Certainly these Soviet approaches furnish arguments for those politicians and military men who insist that our army fights for the defense of the West in Algeria," said Le Monde. "But does not experience prove, on the contrary, that it is the continuation of the war which draws Communist influence to Algeria...
Expressing the uneasiness of French youth about bearing arms in the sixth year of the Algerian war, the teachers' union issued a manifesto that "the problem of youth has now become the problem of the nation." Young Frenchmen have gone to jail for aiding the rebel FLN. Lyons' Cardinal Gerlier asked prayers to end "the devastating war in Algeria and the terrible problems it poses to the consciences of many, particularly among the young...
...Frenchmen looked up in wonder last year as a big orange balloon carrying two passengers floated back and forth across the country. Photographed by movie cameras in an accompanying helicopter, the balloon whisked by the spires of the Strasbourg Cathedral, almost bumped into the Eiffel Tower, skimmed within a few yards of Mont Blanc, dipped down to mast level over the Riviera. In Paris last week the resulting film, Voyage in a Balloon, gave audiences a stunning cloud's-eye view of virtually every remarkable tourist sight in France...