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...pretty speeches, was dined and wined, received curtsies from some 3,400 ladies of France. In more private moments, she slept in Napoleon's bed, bathed in Empress Eugénie's bathtub, sat in an armchair used by Louis XV, and (according to the calculations of Frenchmen experienced in such calculations) found time to spend just 1½ hours out of the three-day visit alone with her husband...
Paris was not for long content with such enlightened methods. Frenchmen poured into Morocco, grabbed up the best farmland with the help of laws dedicated to "extending the French presence," and allowing French farmers to pay 20% less tax than a Moroccan. They displaced the Moroccan administrators. They dug mines, made Morocco the world's second in production of phosphate, fifth in manganese, seventh in lead. They built roads and railroads, power plants and dams, constructed ports (Casablanca handles more tonnage than Marseille). They built 133 hospitals, at one time boasted they were opening a school...
Most important of all, he is an Arab nationalist who understands that young nations can cooperate with the West without jeopardizing either pride or independence. He scorns the xenophobic raving against the Western "imperialists'' that inflames Middle East relationships. Liberal Frenchmen have called him "our final card in North Africa"-though the fact of the matter is that if the French do not make an end to the bloody war in adjoining Algeria, none of their cards will be worth much. The U.S.'s interest is direct: it has a naval air station and four...
...French in Algeria are trying to create a favorable atmosphere for negotiations by ending violence, although the very methods which suppress violence serve to perpetuate hatreds. The Algerian situation is complicated by the presence of 1,000,000 European residents in a nation of 10 million; they are Frenchmen who have made Algeria their home, done much to develop it as a country. If there had been a proportionate number of British in India when the British pulled out in 1947, it would have been necessary to evacuate or leave behind 34 million people...
...French Author Stendhal last week, members of the French government did more than celebrate Mollet's first year* in office. They underlined a noteworthy fact: Socialist Mollet (who has survived 32 votes of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies) continues to be Premier because the vast majority of Frenchmen and their deputies support his Algerian policy, which might be defined as a policy of the right enforced by a man of the left...