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...most respected daily. Beuve-Méry, 58, a grave, greying man with a permanently skeptical arch to his brow, has modeled Le Monde after his own image. Like its editor, Le Monde is more conservative than Catholic, more trenchant than traditional, more republican than radical, more pro-French than anti-American, more non-Communist than antiCommunist. At a time when much of the French press ranges from sycophantic toward De Gaulle to uncritical, Le Monde has been his most respectable-and most persistent-critic. No one knows better than Beuve-Méry how difficult...
Throughout the four years of his nation's independence, earnest King Mohammed V has tried to find politicians who will govern Morocco to suit him. The first government he installed collapsed because the main political party, Istiqlal (Independence ), thought the Premier was too pro-French. Since December 1958, Premier Abdallah Ibrahim, 41, has governed at the head of an uneasy coalition whose backbone was the leftist Union Nationale des Forces Popnlaires. He devalued the Moroccan franc, obtained U.S. agreement to the evacuation of air and naval bases by 1963, talked of sweeping economic reforms and nibbled away...
Today Soustelle insists that he is not anti-American. "I am one of France's few public men who know the U.S., who speak English, who read the books and magazines. But I am pro-French! Excuse me, but I ami" He is outspokenly resentful of the U.S. refusal to support France in Algeria. "The Americans." he declared early last year, "treat their friends as enemies and their enemies as friends...
...reasons for Charles de Gaulle's electoral triumph in Algeria last November was his giving Algerian women the vote. The woman who took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back...
During a question period that followed, an unidentified Algerian student spoke out against the pro-French views of Hoffmann. This student broadened the issue by demanding that France get out of all her former colonies and "leave them alone...