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...world's liveliest carnival of ideas, the mandarins dispute, propound and quarrel. Every week 380,000 Frenchmen buy the four intellectual weeklies that record their latest pronouncements. In regular newspapers, they often command more attention than politicians or priest Roman Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, in Le Figaro, urges French youth to a more dynamic Christian socialism. Existentialist Merleau-Ponty attacks Sartre for his latter-day allegiance to Stalinism in L'Express, is answered by Simone de Beauvoir in Les Temps Modernes...
...Deputies believe passionately that North Africa must be held at all costs if France is to remain a big power, those who favor holding it by savage repression were on the defensive. The Casablanca murder of Publisher Lemaigre-Dubreuil in Morocco (TIME, June 27), a Frenchman killed by other Frenchmen for being moderate, had stirred all France. Premier Faure seized his chance. His government, said Faure, "will never agree to renounce, palter with, or open to question the French position in Morocco." But there must be a new policy for Morocco and a new man to implement it. Out went...
...attributed." In Casablanca, suspects were hustled to police headquarters with paper bags over their heads to conceal their identities. Members of the gang had reportedly confessed to participating in 80 "incidents," including the burning of an Arab market, the murder of several Arab farmers, and bomb attacks on local Frenchmen...
...week's end the President of France, René Coty, made one of his infrequent departures from Olympian impartiality. In a speech he endorsed Faure's program for a peaceful "interdependence" in North Africa, condemned "abominable violence" by Frenchmen, and attacked Arab agitators from "certain foreign countries...
...Algeria, 270,000 in Tunisia, 360,000 in Morocco-have contributed a share in the economic and cultural development of the country which is disproportionate to their numbers. In general, farming methods are more modern and profits are higher on lands cultivated by French colons. Emigration of Frenchmen might precipitate the collapse of the country's resources at a moment when the pressure of growing population is particularly strong; the handing over of all power to an improvised government might touch off an emigration which everyone wishes to avoid...