Word: surmounts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Terrified Thanks. Whatever his end, De Gaulle had chosen as his means a kind of three-stage rocket designed to surmount the towering divisions and dissensions of present-day France. Stage I of De Gaulle's plan, which will precede the referendum, consists of a series of administrative reforms in Algeria. A High Commissioner for Algeria (probably tough-minded Education Minister Louis Joxe) will take office in Paris, but his Deputy Commissioner in Algiers itself will be a Moslem. (Reportedly, two prominent Moslems have already been sounded out about the job and have declined with terrified thanks.) The political...