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Despite Nasser's protestations, there was considerable evidence that Britons, Frenchmen and Jews resident in Egypt were indeed being given short shrift. In Marseille, Jewish refugees from Port Said tearfully insisted that a few days prior to the Anglo-French attack, the Egyptian police seized one hostage from each Jewish family in the city. In London, Englishmen newly expelled from Egypt reported that their homes and other possessions had been auctioned off by the Egyptian government, and all their funds over $28 confiscated...
...Silver Star). As a civilian, he kept going to war. In Guatemala during the anti-Communist revolution, he climbed over street barricades carrying not only a camera but a .45 Colt. During Tunisian riots, he calmly snapped pictures in the middle of a pillaging mob looking for Frenchmen to kill. In Indo-China, snipers' bullets ripped his uniform without touching him. In Algeria, he was often as much as five hours ahead of advancing French troops. In Moscow, he stepped up to a high-ranking Soviet officer in the street, plucked off his shoulder-boards and said "Thanks...
...fire with a machine gun. Alarmed, French police broke through and dispersed the mob. Instead of going home, demonstrators surged about eight blocks away to the offices of the Communist newspaper L'Humanité, hurled cobblestones through windows, fought with Communist defenders until past midnight. In all, 106 Frenchmen were injured, and a Communist died of the pummeling he took...
...support to either the colonial powers or the new anticolonial Afro-Asian powers. Even in London Dulles' candor caused outspoken anger, and in France U.S. prestige sank. Already disillusioned by U.S. "equivocation" over Suez and profoundly worried by France's isolation in her desperate colonial problem. Frenchmen should not have been surprised to learn that the U S. a Pacific as well as an Atlantic power had vital interests differing with those of its Anglo-French allies. Perhaps they were not surprised, but many were prompted into an awareness that their soundest hope for help in time...
...enemies: Pope Clement V. his prosecutor, Guillaume de Nogaret, and the coldly handsome King Philip IV of France. Historians still argue over the guilt or innocence of the Templars,*but most agree that they had to be swept away before Philip's kingdom could become a nation of Frenchmen instead of warring congeries of Burgundians, Gascons, Provengals, Normans. To unite France, Philip set out not only to destroy the Templars but to defeat the great barons, carry blood and sword to the rebellious Flemings, even capture the Papacy and remove it from Rome to Avignon...