Word: lois
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bourgès-Maunoury conceded that "force alone" could not hold Algeria. Force alone would also not satisfy the Socialists and the Catholic M.R.P., whose support his minority government needs to survive. Over violent objections from his own Cabinet, Radical Socialist Bourgès-Maunoury hammered out a loi-cadre (skeleton law) for Algeria that by the current standards of French opinion was almost generous. It would divide Algeria into half a dozen semi-autonomous regions in which Moslems would for the first time have equal voting rights with Algerian Frenchmen. After two years the regional assemblies were...
...pacified," after which Algerian nationalists will get political benefits. But the deadline to this sort of postponement is the September U.N. session, when the Arab-Asian bloc can be expected to raise the Algerian question again. The French government is currently studying a project to offer Algeria a loi cadre (a "skeleton of law" to be fleshed out as the need arises), in advance of the U.N. session. This would reportedly decentralize and gerrymander Algeria so that the outnumbered French would not be everywhere overwhelmed by Arab votes, and provide some form of internal autonomy. But if the President...
...World. Italy's Dino Campana sees classical images that compare the noble Indian savage to Venus, Federico Garcia Lorca's Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne throbs with Spanish symbolism, while France's Jules Laforgue dreams in Gallic-materialist specifics ("Des venaisons, et du whisky. . . et la loi de Lynch") and Walt Whitman shambles forth in his pagan-hobo way, singing The Song of the Open Road. Trying to follow each poet's vision, the music seemed to have little vision of its own, but it was skillfully scored. It evoked a lusty boo or two along with...
...Others grieved. "They wouldn't talk to us," cried Giovanni Ovino. "I said to myself: 'Maybe they don't like my black hair.' In a funny way, I felt ashamed of my hair. But how could I change it?" Domenico Loi saw it in a wider context. "They weren't Communists . . . But if they had been Communists, they couldn't willfully have damaged their nation more." As if in agreement, the unseen foghorn moaned...