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Hoffmann felt de Gaulle showed his great ability in handling the Algerian War. De Gaulle came to power with statements so ambiguous about Algeria "that the conservatives were sure he was committed to a French Algeria while the liberals could comfort themselves with the ambiguity, saying that he was a liberal unable to any what he believed...
Describing the mechanics of de Gaulle's Algerian solution. Hoffmann pointed out that the French president had avoided committing himself to any one settlement. He tried first the solutions most favorable to France, continuing to make concessions until he reached agreement with the Algerians. Had de Gaulle been able to offer more to the Algerians in the beginning, the solution would have been far more favorable to France. Hoffmann said...
Correspondent Behr is no stranger to covering wars. After five years of following the Algerian revolution, he arrived at his new post in New Delhi on the day that hostilities with the Chinese broke out. He found that many of his old friends, subalterns with whom he had soldiered in the Royal Garhwal Rifles, were now battalion commanders or higher in the front lines against the Chinese. Scarcely had Behr arrived before he was on his way to the forward headquarters at Tezpur. Soldier to soldier, an Indian commander told him: "We are hanging by our eyelashes." Emergency living conditions...
...education of their children. In imitation of Gandhi, the members of the community begin their day with yoga-like exercises, practice an ardent pacifism. They have joined in sitdown strikes at the Marcoule atomic-energy plant, demonstrated against the detention camps set up for F.L.N. supporters during the Algerian...
...compensating European landowners. Around Setif, the peasants have simply appropriated many deserted farms; in other areas, local committees have taken them over. Rather than carve up big farms, Ben Bella announced that he will turn them into state-owned cooperatives, but rejected Soviet-style collectivization as alien to Algerian "civilization and psychology." Even so, the prospect did not cheer many peasants, whose deepest craving is for some land of their...