Word: algerianness
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Ever since the British burned Joan of Arc. martyrdom by foreigners has been pure glory for a Frenchman. Hard-pressed by critics of his Algerian policy and urgently in need of tax funds to plug his cracking war economy. France's Premier Guy Mollet last week chose to risk glorious extinction, at the stake of the U.N. Security Council rather than be buried in the ignominy of domestic issues...
...Arab leaders who have most to lose from the French-Algerian war met last week in Rabat, Morocco's Sultan Mohamed V, and Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba, each ruler of a country one year old, had much to talk about, but their main occupation was: how to get peace and order established in Algeria, which lies between them. Both Morocco and Tunisia need money, goods and trained men to stabilize their fledgling countries and, though they had fought hard and bitterly for their independence from France, they knew that their best chance of help lay in friendship with...
...Algerian nation cannot accept any solution that does not imply as a primary condition the recognition of its independence." Said Bourguiba: "We just have to end this vicious circle." Added a Moroccan minister: "It's fine to know how to throw a grenade, but you have to know where and when to throw it." With the aid of the Moroccans, whip-sharp Premier Bourguiba began working on a formula of self-determination by which the Algerians might compromise profitably with France, as Morocco and Tunisia had done. Tunis had settled for the formula of "internal autonomy"; for Moroccans...
...last word has not been heard from the Algerian revolution committee, which numbers 34 members, but lacks anyone with the vision or the experience of Bourguiba or the Sultan. Undaunted, Bourguiba returned home from Morocco proclaiming: "We will have something to show in a few weeks, I hope. It's a matter of breaking down the wall of distrust...
...Dubois, a Swiss, felt deeply for France, another secret-service man in France's own Deuxième Bureau in Paris was differently affected by his own government's handling of Algerian policy. The Deuxième Bureau man tipped off the Egyptian embassy in Bern that its telephone lines were being tapped by Dubois' outfit. Furthermore, the information thus obtained, including the support the Algerians were getting from Egypt's Nasser, was leaking back to Paris...