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...discovered in the stately chestnut trees ringing the Rond-point on Paris' Champs Elysées last week; every one would have to be uprooted. Wrote Le Figaro: "Weakened and tormented by polluted air, the hearts of these great trees empty little by little." Frenchmen saw in the words an all too obvious simile for the nation...
...Sorbonne professor, sponsored by the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Fund, felt the British colonial policy should be the model for France: cooperation with the North African nationalists and their attempts to form a new government. However, Aron recognized that the wish for equality among Frenchmen and the wish to become masters, both prevalent in the French mind, are hard to reconcile...
Regularly for the past two years, public-opinion pollsters have been asking Frenchmen the same question and getting the same answer: As between independence for Algeria and continued war, which do you choose? The response has not varied: 70% have stuck to fighting on, though 400,000 French soldiers are tied up in Algeria and the war costs nearly $4,000,000 a day. Last week, with the revolt still far from the often promised "final quarter-hour," the French Assembly came to a moment of historic decision...
...Bourgès-Maunoury hammered out a loi-cadre (skeleton law) for Algeria that by the current standards of French opinion was almost generous. It would divide Algeria into half a dozen semi-autonomous regions in which Moslems would for the first time have equal voting rights with Algerian Frenchmen. After two years the regional assemblies were to be allowed to elect a "federal executive council." "With the loi-cadre," said Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, "France will have sympathy and consideration from the free world. Without it, I can answer for nothing...
...pair the door. On Fraser's shelves are volumes to turn any McCarthyite red. When the State Department nervously banned the fictional biography Citizen Tom Paine, by the then Redolent Howard Fast, from its overseas informational libraries, Fraser ordered six extra copies to handle the requests of curious Frenchmen. Summarizes Librarian Harry Goldberg: "Our aim is to present all aspects of American literature and civilization...