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Heroes for Pedestals. In its heyday during "The Troubles" (1916-21), when ragged irregulars blew up barracks and bridges and battled England's Black and Tans, the rebellion bred more than enough heroes and martyrs to fill all the pedestals that remained when the Irish finished dynamiting English statuary. It boasted as many wits and eccentrics, from the unknown patriot who dubbed Queen Victoria "The Famine Queen," to Robert Bolton, who escaped from Dublin's Mount joy Prison after leaving a note explaining politely that the accommodations were below his accustomed standard...
...disaster. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was dead, and in sight of his empty chair on the Assembly podium, the Russians fought week after week to destroy the post he had occupied. Then came the savage Katanga war, in which U.N. forces fought to put down Moise Tshombe's rebellion against the Congo's central government-a conflict in which many felt that the U.N. had no business taking part. Many of the new Afro-Asian nations, which now made up nearly half of the Assembly membership, were widely written off as automatic Communist allies. On all sides there...
...crowded temples" is worse than irrelevant; it is a threat to the vitality of the faith. Writing in the first issue of Dialog, a handsomely printed new Lutheran journal of theology, he foresees a radical regrouping of Christians, with the cadres of dedicated believers in an open and creative rebellion against the "organization church." Dr. Halvorson, assistant director of the American Lutheran Church's board of college education, reports that "A rising crescendo of questions regarding the vast amount of seemingly aimless activity is coming from the center of the church. Innumerable meetings, immersion in 'churchiness...
...Charges. With a settlement near, the S.A.O. faces a set of difficult alternatives. An immediate mass uprising might actually work to De Gaulle's advantage by giving him the chance to invoke martial law in Algeria?which he has so far hesitated to do?and thus choke off the rebellion by drafting men into the army, requisitioning property, arresting and interning suspects without formal charges. On the other hand, the uprising could also come too late; Salan cannot possibly hope to prevail against the F.L.N. without at least partial army support, and there are signs that the longer his terrorists...
Bidet Civilization. Back in France after the Indo-China war, the paratroop officers are sickened by the "civilization of the Frigidaire and the bidet." They welcome the Algerian rebellion, and. under Colonel Raspèguy. take over the misfits and mutineers of the 10th Paratroop Regiment, determined to turn them into "Communists" who are antiCommunist. For two months, the regiment is molded by forced marches and the blare of loudspeakers that ceaselessly extol "us" and denounce "them," i.e.. anyone who is not a paratrooper...