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While the F.L.N. leaders wrangled like children, there was evidence of a growing impatience among the long-suffering 10 million Algerians. The historical-minded remembered that their country had always fallen prey to conquerors because of the inability of its chiefs to unite against a common foe. The F.L.N. newspaper, El Moudjahid, had a warning to all the wranglers: "If an agreement is not reached very quickly, it will inevitably become necessary to consider the replacement of the leadership...
...some time Malaya has cast a wary eye at the spread of Communist influence directly to the south. On the island state of Singapore, Red-lining extremists threaten to topple the local government, and the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo (see map) are prey to the expansionist aims of Indonesia's left-leaning President Sukarno...
Farr was typical of Gilbert's associates. No man to prey on widows and orphans. Gilbert cultivated people who were able to help him socially in return for a rids on his financial coattails. Said one Manhattan socialite: "I always thought Gilbert was rather gauche, ill at ease and pushy. But I just felt that a guy that ambitious for himself might bring my money up with him." Wealthy London Dandy John Aspinall grew so fond of Eddy that in 1959 he threw a $15.000 party for him in a Belgrave Square mansion decked out to resemble the Hanging...
...criminals the only ones who prey on the slums. In Santiago, in a recent election for an internal "command," an entire slum of 35,000 inhabitants fell under the control of Communists. In Caracas, Reds have infiltrated the shanty towns through "neighborhood improvement committees," and the notorious "Caracas mob" sweeping down from the hills is a major problem...
...strange logic that guides its movement, the S.A.O. has singled out Italian newsmen as prime prey. Algeria is heavily populated with Italian immigrants, and the S.A.O. assumed that the Italian press would sympathize with its cause. But Italian radio broadcasts (easily heard in Algiers) and imported Italian papers were disillusioning, and with disillusionment began a saga of terror...