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...people in the world," orated Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella to his fanatically cheering audience, "the Algerians are the last ones who will accept dictatorship." Then Ben Bella proceeded to make himself the one-man ruler of a one-party state...
Hardest hit when the new crop comes in will be the wine growers of the Midi, who supply most of the vintageless vin ordinaire that sells in France for about 250 a bottle (and is often mixed with Algerian wine to raise its alcoholic content). The South's worried farmers are demanding that the government bar all imports, even from Algeria, and buy up last year's surplus, perhaps to turn it into industrial alcohol. But Paris does not want to spend the money, and is treaty-bound to buy all the wine that independent Algeria can produce...
Tomatoes Are Cheaper. When he was inaugurated Premier last September, he discovered his principal aim of land reform was already an accomplished fact; Algerian peasants had spontaneously taken over the rich lands vacated by the French settlers. Ben Bella shrewdly legalized what the peasants had improvised. The peasants also showed wis dom: instead of breaking up the estates into uneconomic small plots, they decided to form management committees to run them as they were. Ben Bella, who has an almost mystical love of the peasant masses, is staking his future on this version of the collective farm. Each estate...
Relations with France are surprisingly close: 20,000 French technicians, their salaries paid by Paris, work in Algeria, and young Algerian government employees are being trained in France. Most Frenchmen, including De Gaulle, "have a conscience about Algeria," and Paris has granted upwards of $400 million in aid. The U.S. last year supplied 300,000 tons of wheat, which fed 4,600,000 undernourished Algerians, and U.S. aid during the next fiscal year will come to about $40 million. The Communist bloc has so far offered only $12 million, mostly in loans, but last week a top-level Soviet economic...
...Harcourt's L'Asie, Reveil d'un Monde, dealing with the diversity of Asian cultures; Edouard Sablier's De I'Oural a I'Atlantique, a dissertation on Communist penetration; L'Histoire Secrete, a history of France from 1936 through the Algerian war; and L'agran-dissement, an abstract novel by Claude Mauriac...