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March 12, 1932 was a raw, sunless day in Paris, and the city's restless tempo was slowed to a funereal rustle as Frenchmen filed into la Salle de l'Horlage at the Quai d'Orsay to stare at the bier of the illustrious pactmaker. Aristide Briand. All Paris seemed to be wrapped in a shroud of melancholy over the passing of the great democrat-all but a luncheon party of American. British and Swedish bankers who waited in edgy silence at the Hotel du Rhin to confer with an autocratic emperor of finance. "Match King...
...action on Algeria, argued the French, would touch off a roaring, full-scale revolution that would bathe all of Algeria in blood. Algeria, however, was already pretty thoroughly bathed in blood -18,000 Algerians and more than 3,000 Frenchmen have been killed this year. Last week French Resident Minister Robert Lacoste concentrated both civil and military police powers in the Algiers area in the tough hands of Brigadier General Jacques Massu, who commanded French paratroops in the Suez invasion. "The battle for Algeria," proclaimed Lacoste, "has reached its final phase...
...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 refugee status and any chance of moving to another job in another country, that all the young men would be drafted into the Foreign Legion, and even that France was a Stalinist country...
...British Historian Arnold Toynbee turned up in Manila, and after looking it over and thinking it over, reported a change of mind to the London Observer. "In spite of my affection for America," he wrote, "I have sometimes felt a touch of the same irritation as my fellow Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and Britons at hearing my American friends confidently assert that America has done better by the Philippines than the rest of us Westerners have done by those Asian and African countries that have been temporarily under our rule. My glimpse of the Philippines has changed my feelings about this...
...ministers from Mollet's coalition Cabinet unless he revised his Middle East and Algerian policies. The M.R.P. (Catholic) Party voted against Mollet in Parliament, forcing him to carry the issue (a minor budgetary item) on Communist votes. The meaning of these rebukes was plain to most Frenchmen: the politicians were turning their back on Mollet. This is the inevitable first step in an ancient French ritual: first declare your victim use (finished), put together a hypothetical majority to replace his government, then agree on a potential new Premier and the proper distribution of Cabinet posts...