Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odor of Hexachlorocyclohexane spread across the land, the invasion was brought partially under control, but an estimated 70% of Tunisia's $8,500,000 date crop had disappeared. For the Tunisians, the locust scourge was one more portent that nothing will be right in North Africa until the Algerian war is over...
Humiliation. Says Aron: "If France had voluntarily accorded in 1954 (in Tunisia and Morocco) what she finally accorded under the pressure of terrorism, she would not be suffering from this intolerable feeling of humiliation." Aron's advice: negotiate with the Algerian rebels, slowly transfer power to the Moslem nationalists, and spend a fraction of the cost of the war repatriating Algeria's Europeans to France. Until recently Aron was as insistent as most Frenchmen that only by holding Algeria could France continue a great power...
Aron has no categorical answer to the question that troubles every Frenchman: Can a French minority remain, one million against eight million, in an Algerian Republic? But, he warns, "the longer the pacifying war continues, the more the chances of peaceful cohabitation between the two communities diminish." In the long run the men who govern an Algerian Republic, "unless they are carried away by mad blindness, cannot ignore the need they will have of France." For Aron the crux of the question is the formation of this Algerian state-"a difficult enterprise, and nobody can guarantee its success...
...today it is a question of choosing between two evils. The policy of pacification has not brought peace but perpetuates a ruinous war.'' Aron says. "The acceptance of a policy resulting in Algerian independence would at least provide the chance for an intermediary solution between indefinite violence and sudden surrender...
...added the strong Arab voice of Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba, longtime friend of France, in an interview in L'Express. Said Bourguiba: "There are words for which one is willing to die-'liberty' and 'independence.' I know that many French sincerely believe that the Algerian people want to continue living in French territory, but I know the Algerians ... In Algeria, believe me, the fellagha are supported by the vast majority of the Algerian people...