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Parisian Shakedown. The contagion of violence reached to Paris itself. There the supporters of Messali Hadj's Algerian National Movement and those of the National Liberation Front formerly directed by Cairo-based leaders such as the captured Mohammed ben Bella, feuded like Chicago-style gangs over the privilege of shaking down the city's 80,000 Algerians for contributions. One Algerian objected that he did not want to take sides; his body was fished out of the Seine a few days later. Café owners who contributed to the National Liberation Front had their stocks smashed by Hadj...
...Algeria, where the new troops will bring France's total to over 330,000, the French found hopeful signs in the fact that the fellaghas were fighting among themselves. The Algerian National Movement, directed by bearded Messali Hadj from his enforced exile on an island off the Brittany coast, has been making a major effort to recapture the influence it lost to the more militant National Liberation Front, whose forces are commanded by Mohammed ben Bella and supported from Cairo by Egypt's ambitious Premier Nasser. Twice French troops have come across troops of Arabs with their throats...
...government announced that it was buying another 175 helicopters for use in Algeria, and organized an emergency airlift of 10,000 Senegalese troops from French West Africa. Under protective arrest, Algerian Nationalist Leader Messali Hadj, who three weeks ago organized the strike of 10,000 Algerians in Paris, was transferred from mainland France to an island off the Brittany coast. Reflecting new allied sympathy for France's efforts, SHAPE Commander General Al Gruenther gave his approval to France's withdrawal of two first-class divisions from NATO's European shield in Germany, declaring that Algeria was "indispensable...
North African nationalists were outraged by the Dillon speech, which Algerian Leader Messali Hadj called "contrary to the principles of American democracy." Frenchmen, however, cheered it. Said French Premier Guy Mollet: "President Eisenhower and Mr. Dillon are great friends of France. I want to express my thanks and those of my country to both of them...
...Died. Hadj Thami el Mezouari el Glaoui, eightyish, wily Pasha of Marrakech; of cancer; in Marrakech, Morocco. Berber Chieftain El Glaoui was named Pasha in 1908 for helping depose his first Sultan, rode to immense wealth (estimated at $50 million) from tithes on almond, saffron and olive harvests, profits from stocks in French-run mines, rebates on imported cars and machinery, reputed revenue from 6,000 prostitutes. His power rested on 30,000 tribesmen whom he used to enforce French colonial policies. In 1953 El Glaoui, an astute sniffer of political winds, aided the French in selling out the legitimate...