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Startling as a shout, the silent casbah sprang to life last week, and its outburst basically altered the nature and changed the pace of the long-drawn-out agony known by the bleak title of "the Algerian problem...
Second fact was that De Gaulle's proposal of an "Algerian Algeria" linked to France had neither appeased nor diverted the Moslems in their drive for independence. By liberalizing voting laws and by massive social reform, De Gaulle had hoped to win over the vast noncombatant Moslem majority, separate them from the F.L.N. rebels, eventually produce a new moderate leadership that would negotiate a new relationship with France as between friends. That hope dwindled when the F.L.N. flags bloomed on every minaret, when the shouts of the demonstrators in Algiers and Oran, in Bone and Constantine, changed from "Vive...
...Gaulle's offer of an Algerian republic now seems the only course left, short of granting immediate independence. Plainly, a French-sponsored republic would be only a transitional regime; with Moslem sentiment as it was demonstrated to be last week, it would be only a matter of months before the F.L.N. was voted into power. And, giving no comfort to De Gaulle, even those Moslem leaders who had won offices in De Gaulle's new elections privately describe themselves as key men of the "transition...
Beginning in January, 1959, Algerian students arrived in America. Knowing little or no English, they were placed in the English Language Institutes of Columbia, Rutgers, and Michigan. Within three months the students were speaking good enough English to be admitted to prominent American universities. Their records so far, stated Clifford, have been "far above average...
Each year the NSA sponsors two conferences for their "Special Algerian Scholarship Program," for which they pay all traveling expenses. Last year's winter conference was held at Yale. The summer conferences are held on the site of the NSA Congress...