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...decide whether Premier Johannes ("Joho") Hoffmann's Christian People's Party or one of the opposition parties would control the 50-man Landtag. Actually, they were being asked to choose between 1) France's plan to "Europeanize" the Saar by making it an independent but pro-French unit within the Schuman Plan's European coal and steel pool and 2) Germany's wish to reincorporate the Saar in the fatherland, from which it was parted...
When the votes were counted, 430,000 Saarlanders had cast valid ballots-all, except the Communists' 40,000, in favor of the pro-French parties. There were 140,000 presumably pro-German blank ballots (24% of the total)-just enough to worry the French, but nowhere near enough for the Germans to claim a decisive protest against the Francophile regime. Saarlanders had given German nationalism a sharp rebuff...
...French demands. He went even further, blaming Tunisia's troubles on the nationalists, "men whose secret intentions were surely evil." Then he turned over Tunisia's Foreign Ministry to Resident De Hautecloque, agreed to withdraw Tunisian complaints from the U.N., and appointed a fat and wealthy pro-French Prime Minister, Salah Eddine Ben Mohammed Baccouche, 69, who proudly wears the cross of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. It was a surprising victory for De Hautecloque. In Tunis, which is normally noisy at night, a rigid curfew kept things quiet except for the barking of dogs...
Defeat for the West Three months ago, in a daring parachute swoop, General de Lattre de Tassigny hurled the Communist Viet Minh out of the strategic, battle-scarred city of Hoa Binh, rice-and salt-rich capital of the pro-French Mung tribesmen. It was a major French victory, and the French proudly announced: "We shall never give up Hoa Binh." Hoa Binh was important because it straddles Route Coloniale No. 12, along which Chinese coolies had sneaked loads of ammunition from Red China to Communist guerrillas in southern Indo-China...
...Berbers Ride. On Feb. 25, thousands of pro-French El Glaoui's Berber horsemen, wearing their war medals and flying the French tricolor attached to spears and old muzzle-loading guns, descended from the Atlas Mountains, headed for Fez and Rabat. Nervous townsmen bolted their shops; Arab women were kept indoors...