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...boss by blood or marriage) Hoxha speaks from a podium decorated with a plaster bust of himself. Like his country, Hoxha is full of surprises. Instead of being a rough, tough mountain chieftain, he is a former schoolteacher and was the pampered son of a well-to-do Moslem merchant. Though he has the mentality of a brigand, his manners are those of a cultivated bourgeois and reflect his education at universities in France and Belgium...
...night in September 1919, when an audience studded with Cabinet members and ambassadors jammed London's Covent Garden to hear Lowell Thomas lecture on Lawrence, the Uncrowned King of Arabia. It was a rousing occasion; the Welsh Guards played background music, and an Irish tenor rendered the Moslem call to prayer. The lecture, repeated round the world over the next four years by Commentator Thomas, was seen and heard by over a million. Lurking in the darkened rear of the auditorium on several occasions was Lawrence himself, blushing to the roots of his hair, some thought with pleasure...
Into the River. In France itself, S.A.O. is getting increasingly bold, and the police itself has become suspect. The Senate investigated alleged police brutality against Algerians in Paris, found that an undisclosed number of Moslem bodies (reliably said to be 60) had been thrown into the Seine or dumped under the trees of the Bois de Boulogne. At week's end police rounded up 30 leaders of the F.L.N. in France, seized $600,000 that they had collected from Moslem workers...
...French air raids, prison camps and executions. The total death toll is already two-thirds larger than that of the U.S. Civil War-an estimated 380,000, of whom 2,000 were European settlers, 18,000 members of the French armed forces, 160,000 F.L.N. guerrillas and 200,000 Moslem civilians...
...possibility of early peace had a calming effect on Algeria's "Independence Day." From the safety of their Tunisian headquarters, the F.L.N. leaders urged Moslems to avoid violence and celebrate "joyfully, as if independence had already been gained." The European Secret Army Organization, which is determined that Algeria remain French, was nevertheless not ready to make a direct grab for power. A secret S.A.O. broadcast told its followers to stay out of trouble. For its part, the government swiftly cordoned off the various Moslem quarters in Algiers, Oran and Constantine. All traffic was rerouted, and streets leading...