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...bloodiest weeks in the 16 months of crisis. In theory, if it comes to war in Algeria, the odds should favor the government, which has 200,000 French soldiers pitted against perhaps 15,000 armed rebels. But as in Indo-China, the rebels can count on the encouragement, tacit support or at least the silence of 8,000,000 Algerians...
...France's friends, "despite alliances, despite affirmations, there is no real common French-British-American policy today," said Pineau. He pointed to North Africa, where France blames much of its troubles on tacit U.S. support of the Arabs. "We have the impression that behind certain forms of rebellion and of propaganda there lurks the desire of certain powers to swallow up the heritage of France." Turning on the Americans present, he reproached the U.S. for backing the government of Ngo Dinh Diem against the French: "Each time you Americans do something wrong, you do it with the best...
Until last week the political heirs of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk-Republicans and Democrats alike-have maintained a tacit agreement to stick by their leader's founding dictum: in modern Turkey "state and religion must be separate." Then dapper, driving Premier Adnan Menderes, trying to whip up popular support to offset rising big-city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct...
...occasional Yugoslav-Russian compact. Two voters are no more effective than one. If the U.S. bludgeons its allies into electing the Philippines, however, it will score only a Pyrrhic victory. In order to save face, the U.S. delegation could abstain from voting, itself, but it should put its tacit yet influential support behind Yugoslavia...
...easy to explain the bewilderment itself. Although neither President Pusey nor other administrative officials have charted any sort of University policy toward expansion, it seems widely assumed that the University must and will increase its enrollment. But this tacit and passive acceptance of expansion is very dangerous. Such a vague commitment to grow could lead to the slow disappearance of integral parts of the Harvard education which will not be missed until they are gone. The Administration's policy should be clear and precise and must attach a price to growth: maintenance of adequate facilities, including libraries and laboratories; avoidance...