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Dismayed Enemies. At week's end. De Gaulle had sailed as safely through the political storms as through the rain and hail of Algerian weather-though he had stayed out of Algeria's biggest cities. In Paris, his right-wing opponents in the Assembly were reduced to hand-wringing pleas (''the motherland cannot abandon its sons!"). There were only three leaders with the dynamism to rally the European extremists of Algiers-General Raoul Sa-lan, fiery Pierre Lagaillarde and Jacques Soustelle. once both a Cabinet member and close friend of De Gaulle. Not one of them...
...crucial role in Nigeria's advance to independence, Britain has heaped him with honors and his native admirers hail him as "The Black Rock of Nigeria." (As a devout Moslem, the title he prizes most is that of alhaji-one who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.) In his drive to lift his backward land into the 20th century, Balewa's piercing eyes exude calm and sureness, and he rarely speaks in anger. "He is," says a longtime British acquaintance, "perhaps the perfect Victorian gentleman. He simply will not be rushed...
Moody Regime. Since Gaullists worshipfully hail their leader as "mon general," Le Canard catches the mood of the regime with a whole series of possessive pronouns. Unpopular Premier Debré is referred to as "Mondebré" or "Monsatel-lite." When the French colonies disappointed De Gaulle in 1958 by choosing independence rather than autonomy within the French Community, a cartoon showed De Gaulle saying to Debré: "If you ask for independence, I'll explode...
Comrades & Spies. Jaanimets ran himself breathless; then he tried to hail a taxi. He could not make himself under stood, either in Estonian or in broken Russian. Desperately he called another cab. This time he got a ride downtown...
Nkrumah's Hail, Nasser's Hug. Delivered from a single page of handwritten notes, the speech made plain that Castro is an exceptionally talented demagogue in his own right. Passages on the ills of colonialism and the consequences of underdevelopment struck home with many Latin American delegates, but Castro's 100% line-up with the Reds hit home even harder. Said Chile's delegation chief, Daniel Schweitzer: "Castro exposed himself in all ways." Among the Latin Americans, only the delegation from Mexico applauded him, with occasional support from Venezuela and Bolivia. But with Khrushchev cuing...