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...into the Suez Canal last week plowed the 9,424-ton freighter Katoomba, bound for Marseilles with a distinguished prisoner. Sixty-six-year-old Abd el-Krim, who had brilliantly led Berbers and Arabs against Spaniards and Frenchmen in the Riff country of Morocco a generation ago, was exchanging the 21-year exile of Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, for the milder exile of a villa on the French Riviera. Or so the French Government expected. Instead, when the Katoomba reached Port Said, Abd el-Krim, now portly and grey of beard, walked ashore and placed himself...
Though many an American hoped that the loan would help France's Government in its struggle with the Communists, the French Government itself was playing down that line to avoid cries of "dollar diplomacy." Plain Frenchmen regard the Bank's credit as a U.S. loan. Said a middle-class Paris housewife, when asked how she felt about American aid to France: "The Communists say we are getting closer to the Americans because that persuades the Americans to help us. But what is so disgraceful about that? Isn't that what you do in business every...
...stands before her colonies as a nation beaten in the war; 2) the French are hampered, as the British are not, by powerful Communist parties at home and in the colonies. The Communists did not create France's colonial troubles, but they aggravate them. Last week, although most Frenchmen did not know or care much about it, a cauldron of hatred was seething over half the French colonial world...
Madagascar. A shocked French Assembly last week heard details of revolt in Madagascar, the big, beautiful island off Africa's southeast coast. Paris estimated that in March and April, at least, 180 Frenchmen and 1,000 pro-French natives have been butchered by white-turbaned, spear-waving extremists of the Malagasy Renovation Party (M.D.R.M.). Despite French airborne reinforcements, the attacks still continued. Deputy Jules-Mathieu Castellani, a teak-faced Madagascar planter, recounted gruesome tortures...
Sherrod's conclusion: "Despite the attitude of many Frenchmen that this is a war to the death between white and colored races, it is obvious that the French must eventually treat with the rebels...