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...else harnessed the French citizen's growing discontent with the Fourth Republic. He seized attention by his fight against taxes, but his popularity reflects a deeper discord in the France of 1956. That discontent became hurtful with the loss of Dienbienphu. agonizing with the rebellions in Tunisia and Morocco. Now, confronted with the crisis in Algeria, the Fourth Republic faces a crisis in the existence of the parliamentary system itself...
...swirl of events, not the cold war but the decline of empires held the headlines last week. The West's two great empires-Britain and France-put in a damaging week. Bowing to the inevitable, France conceded a resentful Morocco the independence it might have granted, and thereby earned more gratitude, more than two years ago. Fighting the unthinkable, France watched in anguish and anger as its leaders fumbled and Algeria slipped away, and with it France's inexorably dwindling claim to world power...
...reconsider. Finally Mollet compromised on a crash economic program of $70 million and the dispatch of 50,000 troops. These could be obtained without any special call-ups by robbing France's already skeletonized NATO forces. General Augustin Guillaume, chief of the French general staff, who as Morocco's Resident General dethroned Sultan Ben Youssef two years ago, resigned in protest. He was replaced by General Paul Ely, whose name to Frenchmen unfortunately calls up the last despairing days of Indo-China...
France's two other North African territories moved nearer independence-and farther from France. For two weeks Foreign Minister Christian Pineau's negotiators had been stubbornly insisting that France could never agree to recognize Morocco's independence until Sultan Ben Youssef had also accepted terms of "interdependence." Last week France gave in. It signed a declaration recognizing Morocco's sovereignty and granting Morocco the right to maintain an army and conduct its own diplomacy. The terms of interdependence are still to be written...
...choice among postwar French painters (TIME, March 21), the critics had to grub for superlatives. "The Goya of our times," wrote the critic of L'Express. "Together with Picasso, [he] ranks among the most extraordinary examples of artistic creation," said Franc-Tireur. In the gallery's red morocco-bound guest book, the great and fashionable scribbled "Bravo, Bernard" and "C'est merveilleux...