Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algerian nationalists jumped to exploit France's internal crisis. In a show of impudent strength, they staged a coordinated attack on Sidi-bel-Abbes, the storied home of the Foreign Legion itself...
...show of soberer responsibility, Algerian nationalists let it be known that Tunisia would speak for them officially in the forthcoming debate at the U.N. Tunisia, said Chief U.N. Delegate Bahi Ladgham, feels that the Algerian Front of National Liberation (FLN) has the support of the majority of Algerians. "We have kept in touch," he said, "and of course we are neighbors." What were the chances of success? Said Mr. Ladgham: "Each side must give...
Algeria is three times the size of France, is rich in the natural resources France lacks, and is the home of 1,200,000 Europeans and 8,000,000 Arabs. It is also a burying ground for some 5,000 French soldiers, roughly 36,000 Algerian terrorists, and 200,000 civilians. It is responsible, directly or indirectly for the fall of three French governments--Mendes-France in 1955, Mollet and Bourges-Manoury in 1957. Its problems have become the source of bad relations between the French and Morocco and Tunisia and between the French and the United States...
...elements which defeated Bourges-Manoury's reform bill last Monday, the idea of eventual Algerian autonomy is anathema. Even though the bill provided only for a possible federative system of internal government in which the European colonials would keep a measure of power, it was unacceptable to the deputies who see France as she was at the height of Napoleon's Empire. This romanticism combined with the unrelenting opposition of the wealthy colonials now in control of Algeria combined to defeat the one measure short of immediate independence which might have been acceptable to the Algerian National Liberation Front...
With the French refusal to take a decision on Algeria, the only end to the costly and bloody battle in that area appears to be through negotiated settlement. The Moroccans, Tunisians, and Algerian nationalists have called for a four-part conference with the French to try and settle differences without forcing Algerian autonomy on France. But in the absence of a French government, it seems unlikely that the parley could be held before the United Nations begins debate on the subject...