Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Primed with information about the political consciousness of Latin American students, two Algerian student leaders arrived from Lima, Peru, in New York last week for a tour of six American campuses. Mesuwud Aitchalal and Chaib Taleb, the President and Vice-President of the Algerian National Union of Students (UGEMA) were in the U.S. with a double purpose: to propagandize for Algerian independence and to learn first-hand of the strangly parochial and non-political nature of American student life...
Briefly, his commitment is to find moral and, more especially, monetary support for Algerian students, who have been chased from the University of Algiers, deprived of French Government scholarships in France, persecuted, arrested, and forced underground. The Student Union headquarters is now in Lausanne, Switzerland. Its proselytizing leaders are totally dependent upon NSA, WUS, and other student organization funds. This has been the case since 1954, when the Algerian student community declared its unanimous support of the nationalist insurrection...
Since the suffocation of academic life is only one aspect of the military and political squeeze which France has put on Algeria, the solution to the student problem rests upon the result of the Algerian war. To M. Aitchalal's mind, there are only two possibilities. The total extermination of the Algerian people, of whom 500,000 mainly civilians, have already been killed, or truce and negotiations, based on France's public recognition of the independence and equality of Algeria...
Reluctant to answer directly to questions about their relation to the Arab countries of the middle east, and cagey about the prospect of accepting Red China's arms, the two Algerians showed themselves students of politics, diplomacy, and intrigue. They were asked the same cautious questions on each campus, questions about the governmental and disciplinary structure of a post-war Algeria; fears about reprisals against the colonials, and about possible Communist influence in the Algerian freedom front. When their own turn came to ask questions, the Algerians showed their awareness of American affairs. They were disturbed mainly by the proviso...
Brothers or Comrades. Some of the settlers now recognize that the Frenchman's only hope in Algeria is to share it with the Algerians as equals. But the most significant change to have come about during the year is in the army. Purged of its extremists, it is now a thoroughly efficient fighting force that steers carefully clear of politics. It seems to regard the obstinate pieds noirs (black feet-Europeans born in Algeria) as almost as great an obstacle to an Algerian solution as the rebels themselves. Last week, after a series of clashes between his soldiers...