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...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...
Bound up with the election was the fate of Belgium's exiled King Leopold III. All parties wanted the monarchy, but only the Catholics, fervently keynoting the Belgian anthem's refrain, "Le Roi, la loi, la liberté" had campaigned to have Leopold back. Brussels thought the reluctant left-wing parties would agree to recall him-to abdicate in favor of his 15-year-old heir, Prince Baudouin...
...going slower on Kwajalein Island, whose strong pockets held out until battleships and bombers were recalled to help the land-based artillery and bazookas. Kwajalein's pillbox-to-pillbox struggle ended after four days, and Corlett's soldiers rushed northward to capture Ebeye with its seaplane base, Loi and Gugegwe...