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Double Assurance. French President de Gaulle's recent emphasis on an Algerian "republic" may be traced in part to the fact that Kennedy four years ago said that Algeria's independence is "essential." De Gaulle cannot count on much sympathy from the new U.S. President in his insistence on creating France's own nuclear force outside NATO. "It would be uneconomic and unwise," wrote Kennedy in the Saturday Review last September, "for each of our partners to build a wholly independent nuclear system...
Abbas joined the rebels only five years ago, after a lifetime as an Algerian moderate who seemed unable to reconcile his love of French culture with his Moslem inheritance. He speaks far better French than Arabic, has a French wife. The pressure of other F.L.N. leaders last year induced Abbas, discouraged about rebel prospects in the endless war, to journey to Peking and appeal for Red Chinese help. Abbas hoped that the threat of a Red alliance would force the U.S., Britain and the United Nations to bring pressure on France to negotiate...
...frankly admitting that some sort of transition period must come before freedom. How would the F.L.N. deal with the 1,000,000 Europeans islanded among Algeria's 10 million Moslems? "We would like to integrate them into the state," insists an F.L.N. spokesman. "After all, they are more Algerian than French...
...vote. But De Gaulle had asked for a clear vote of confidence from the people, a personal plebiscite which would give the prior consent of France to his future acts-whether he negotiated with the rebel F.L.N., whether he did not, or whether he tried to set up an Algerian Algeria on his own. On New Year's Eve, De Gaulle had warned that "if the reply of the country were negative or indecisive because the majority was small or because it was marked by many abstentions-you well know what a blow this would be for me, preventing...
...sign that time is running out for De Gaulle and France, the General Assembly, for the first time and by an overwhelming 63-to-8 vote, passed a resolution declaring that Algerian freedom is a U.N. responsibility. The warning seemed clear: either France settles the Algerian problem, or everybody else will soon be taking a hand...