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Pursuit in the Hills. When the bloody day ended, eight Frenchmen and pro-French natives were dead, more than 30 wounded. Paris Le Monde lamented: "All this happened as if an invisible hand were looking for a way to destroy Franco-North African solidarity at the exact moment when we were about ready to strengthen it." Premier Pierre Mendès-France, who wants peace and a settlement in North Africa, had just served notice, in one of his fireside chats, that his government was going ahead with plans to let French Africa "have her large part in the social...
...supports Diem, for all his shortcomings and despite the fact that he has shown a tendency to be highhanded as well as high-principled. The French insist that they also support Diem (who consistently opposed their colonial rule), but U.S. officials suspect the French of trying to hold on to their colonial influence in the rubber-rich South by encouraging a pro-French clique of Vietnamese officers in intrigues against Diem. As a result of the intrigue, Diem is more or less locked up inside his Saigon capital by the forces of Army Chief of Staff General Nguyen Van Hinh...
...Mendès-France brought (TIME, Aug. 9) was already being tarnished by old habits of suspicion. The venerable (72) Bey of Tunis, with Mendès' backing, appointed Tahar Ben Amar, 68, one of the protectorate's biggest landowners, to be Premier. He was certainly as pro-French as anyone could wish. But he immediately ran into difficulties...
...natural following in the Assembly, and had to exploit swiftly the prestige he won at Geneva. But even if he had not promised prompt action on Tunisia, some action would have been required by the situation. In the past month Tunisian terrorists have made 130 attacks on colons and pro-French compatriots, killing 93 victims, wounding...
...They Are Only Girls." Two pro-French Arabs were recently caught by the fellagha. One had his tongue cut off; the other was blinded in one eye with a lighted cigarette. On the morning of May 26 a family of colons named Bessede were surrounded in their isolated farmhouse. Two men of the family were shot down at the door, and the wife of one was raped. Two days later the same band of about 30 terrorists killed three more planters...