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...gleaming marble offices of the Governor General in Algiers, a French official fended off newsmen: "But there is no war in Algeria." At first sight, the evidence supported him. In Algiers' sidewalk cafes, French colons sipped their Pernods, while in the gutters, Arab urchins drowsily peddled postcards. But as night fell over the casbah, shots rang out in Algiers and in every other big city in the country. In eleven months, Algerian terrorists killed 457 Frenchmen and 505 pro-French Arabs, wounded close...
...case of Germanic nationalism. Under Schneider's lashing, personal attacks, the European status had become dangerously linked with the uncertain fortunes of its chief proponent, Saar Premier Johannes ("Joho") Hoffmann and his pro-French Christian People's Party. The pro-Germans made up a word for his supporters-Speckfranzosen, i.e., literally, bacon-Frenchmen; loosely, pro-French for material interests. They jeered at the portly Joho as a longtime French puppet, and threw stones and stink bombs to break up his meetings. Whenever he appeared, crowds were on hand to beset him. When he addressed Brebach steelworkers last week...
...ancient Angkor Wat, hides the Democrats' moving spirit, an old enemy of the ex-King. Son Ngoc Thanh was Japan's puppet Premier of Cambodia in World War II, when ex-King Sihanouk was only in his early twenties. Since then, besides being pro-Japanese, Thanh has been pro-French, anti-French, pro-American, anti-American, pro-King and anti-King, but never very antiCommunist. He once dickered with Communism's Ho Chi Minh for armed help in ridding Cambodia of the French. Impatient with what he felt was Sihanouk's excessive tolerance of the French...
...Unless the Western powers are willing to let the country disintegrate politically and fall to the Communists in the north by default, they seem to have little choice but to support the present nationalist government. After all, can France really believe that Ho Chi Minh will be any more pro-French than Premier Diem...
...nearly eight months, through the fall of one French government and the emergence of another, French-Tunisian negotiations have ground on in Paris, sometimes almost grinding to a halt. In the climactic stages. Premier Faure himself headed up the French negotiators. The nominal head of the Tunisian delegation was portly Premier Tahar Ben Amar, a wealthy pro-French landlord. But the real Tunisian string-puller, behind the scenes, was handsome, saturnine Habib Bourguiba, exiled leader of Tuisia's nationalist Neo-Destour Party and an authentic political genius...