Word: ries
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...days, Algiers' Moslems watched silently as European mobs shouted for "Algérie Française" and tangled with security forces. Then, in their frustrated rage, the Europeans went too far. Squads of toughs plunged into the Moslem quarters. They beat up passers-by and forced shopkeepers to join the general strike ordered by the extremist Front de l'Algérie Française...
...advocates of a French Algeria argued that the casbah really wanted association with France but was intimidated into silence for fear of the F.L.N. Attentisme (wait-and-see-ism) virtually disappeared last week in the explosive espousal of the F.L.N. The extremist Front de l'Algérie Française had claimed the support of 500,000 Moslems-if they ever existed, they have now vanished into thin air. The wife of extremist General Jacques Massu operated a social center in the casbah for Moslem orphans, and worked industriously to win them to the cause...
...showed he would not tolerate extremist European defiance in Algiers, incidentally making clear that he blamed the Europeans, not the Moslems, for instigating the riots. Forty civil servants in Algeria, who had quit work in answer to the strike call of the extremist Front de l' Algérie Française, were sacked from their jobs and the Front itself ordered dissolved. The same fate was visited upon the Front's right-wing affiliate in France. The Europeans reacted with a numbed and disconsolate silence. Groaned a European extremist: "What will we do? What...