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Shut Up or Get Out. For such extremists, the "good reasons" are that one year of De Gaulle has meant the election across Algeria of 15,000 Moslem municipal councilors, the promise of massive economic aid, and a regal contempt for those settlers who want an outdated "Papa's Algeria," i.e., an Algeria run comfortably by its white-settler minority. This was hardly what the settlers demonstrated...
...Algerian war began broke out in Constantine, Algeria's third largest city. Enraged by a rebel attack outside town on two young Europeans and their teenage dates-one girl was kidnaped, the other three youngsters murdered-a mob of settlers surged through Constantine's streets wrecking Moslem shops, beating up such hapless Moslem citizens as fell into their hands, and shouting: "De Gaulle to the gallows!" Next day Moslem youths counterattacked in the streets, wielding knives, razors and steel-tipped clubs against Constantine's Europeans...
Mosque & State. One reason for the current bitterness of Turkish politics is that Republicans fear that Menderes, to stay in power, is undoing the separation of mosque and state decreed by the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic. To win favor in the devoutly Moslem countryside, Menderes has provided government funds for a vast mosque-building program, reintroduced religious instruction in the nation's primary schools, and encouraged the reading of the Koran over the state radio. To emancipated Turks, religious rule recalls the stifling, narrow days of the old Ottoman caliphate...
...Sultan's catchable eye was caught by Helen Wilson, the Scottish wife of his physician. He divorced his four Malayan wives by the Moslem formula of telling them "Get out" three times before witnesses. Helen Wilson sailed home for the more laborious Western process of divorcing her husband, married the Sultan later that year, and honeymooned with him in the U.S., where the Sultan was equally affable with President Franklin Roosevelt and Mae West...
...Sends teachers to other Moslem countries where the Koran is poorly studied. Last year 27 teaching missions fanned out as far as Indonesia...