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...from their homes when the police arrived. The rest of the white settler population, confined by a 9 p.m. curfew, gathered on balconies and roofs, threw rocks and vegetables at police search parties and beat pots and pans in the three-short-two-long rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise...
...coming peace talks, were delirious with joy at the news of the revolt. They took to the streets in cheering crowds and drove about Algiers in their cars, sounding three short honks and two long ones on their horns, symbolizing the old ultra battle cry: Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise. They scarcely cared that the army was not fighting primarily for the colons, whom it scorns, but for its own concept of army honor. Humiliated in World War II, defeated again at Dienbienphu, France's career soldiers are obsessed with proving that they can win a campaign...
...creates nothing visible." Indeed, he calls his art "a voyage through the void of the immaterial." At times Klein's work becomes so immaterial it does not even exist. In his last Paris show he offered for $600 something called A Zone of Immaterial Sensibility, hors série. It was nothing but the "gallery atmosphere...
...those Moslems who went to the polls. From the safety of his self-exile in Spain, fiery Pierre Lagaillarde insisted the "F.L.N. flag will never fly over Algiers. We will fight!" But the Europeans in Algeria were drained of such bravado, recognizing at long last that Algérie FranÇaise is dead. They no longer expect help from the French army, which was once their stoutest ally. Even before the referendum, the army showed grudging loyalty to De Gaulle and dismayed the die-hards by opening fire on a European mob for the first time in Algeria...
...referendum convinced even the soldiers who believed in Algérie FranÇaise. "We cannot oppose France and De Gaulle now," said an officer last week. "We thought we were here to guarantee French sovereignty . . . Now we know the French people have a different idea. We must consent by maintaining discipline. But a lot of young officers are not holding their heads high today." The officer corps deeply remembers the war years when Vichyite and Gaullist troops clashed in Syria and Dakar. Above all else, French generals are determined that "never again must the army be divided against itself...