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...time when many Frenchmen feel that Arab demands in North Africa are getting out of hand, Soustelle's appointment will strengthen Mendès' position in the forthcoming Assembly debate. With the full support of his own party and the votes of Soustelle's Gaullist friends, he should carry the Assembly. Said Mendes: "I am neither optimistic nor pessimistic...We will...
...cases of European terrorism aimed at the natives. Often the activities of the "counter-terrorists," as they call themselves, are conducted with the tacit complicity of local cops, who have little patience with the slow-moving machinery of French justice. "What?" bellowed one indignant Casablanca policeman recently. "Arrest Frenchmen for killing these Moroccan pigs? They ought to be given the Legion of Honor." Seeing Nothing. Morocco's French-colonial vigilantes are largely concentrated in three small, tightly knit undercover groups: the White Hand, Agir (to act), and the more formally titled Organisation de Défense Anti-Terroriste. They...
...mathematics teacher at the Technical College for Boys in the French city of Albi, is a famous man. All through the French Pyrenees his name can start bitter argument: he is an unfrocked Roman Catholic priest, excommunicated for heresy. No religious affair for a long time has stirred up Frenchmen as much as the case of Henri Dubois...
...thousands of German prisoners of war, thousands of Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, executioners who worked for the SS in the Ukraine, SS men, thousands of Russian and Ukrainian Jews (some of them victims of the "little pogrom" just before Stalin's death), Armenians. Greeks, Roman Catholic priests, Frenchmen, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetans...
...Sweet briar not only offers advice and family living; it also has a special library and special courses for the Americans--hardly the best places to meet Frenchmen. Since the Sorbonne offers only advanced courses dealing, for example, solely with one author, Sweet briar has set up a few of its own courses equivalent to the "middle group" classification here. But any student who goes should already have the general knowledge such Sweet briar courses would offer, and it is precisely the specialized courses on which he should spend his time...