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...France (plus half a dozen exotic remnants of the old empire) simmered last week with such hot-tempered politics. Only a few days remained before 26 million Frenchmen were to go to the polls and with their ballots reveal what the politicians called "tomorrow's secret": Who, or rather, what new coalition shall next govern France...
...supported him. In Algiers' sidewalk cafes, French colons sipped their Pernods, while in the gutters, Arab urchins drowsily peddled postcards. But as night fell over the casbah, shots rang out in Algiers and in every other big city in the country. In eleven months, Algerian terrorists killed 457 Frenchmen and 505 pro-French Arabs, wounded close...
...French maintain that "Algeria is France" and, on paper, admit Algerians to full citizenship (with voting rights for 15 Deputies in the French National Assembly). Yet Algerians are no longer beguiled by the notion that they are Frenchmen. "We are only French when they want us to fight or die for them," said a bitter young Constantine Arab. "When we need a job, we're not French; when we fight for our freedom, we're not French but bloodthirsty fanatics. Once we loved the French like brothers, and many of us hated to turn against them...
With the turning of the Autumnal equinox, Frenchmen observed that the cycle of natural events was moving forward as usual. In Nice, on the southern coast, leaves carpeted the countryside with flaming reds and yellows. The streets of picturesque Normandy towns echoed emptily to the sound of native voices and accents; gone were the bronzed tourists who had turned the sun-drenched marketplaces into polylingual Babels. Parisians turned up their collars and bent their heads into the chill winds as the first startling drops of snow descended from the sky. And, with the insistent regularity of the changing season, another...
...blasted by his government while visiting the U.S., he singled out another Russian architect in Rangoon to cry, "Look out, comrade, I see you are standing with American and French reporters. They may try to persuade you to stay with the West as the stupid Americans and stupid Frenchmen tried to do with Architect Vlasov...