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...F.L.N. side, the spokesman was Dr. Chawki Mostefai, 42, the general delegate of the F.L.N. to the Algerian Provisional Executive, which will superintend the July 1 referendum on the country's independence. Dr. Mostefai also found himself continually sandbagged by more relentless Moslem colleagues. When the accord was published, promising 1) amnesty for S.A.O. killers, and 2) enlistment of Europeans in the Force Locale, the new Algerian police, there was vigorous dissent from F.L.N. headquarters in Tunis. Vice Premier Mohammed ben Bella was against any deal with the S.A.O. Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda&3151;engaged in a private power struggle...
...flatly declared that the only "road to salvation" for Europeans was to depend on the Evian agreement signed last March by representatives of the F.L.N. and De Gaulle's government. The Evian accord allows Europeans to retain their French nationality for three years even though they participate in Algerian elections as voters or candidates, and promises that they "shall enjoy the benefits of resident aliens" if they then choose to remain French. Pleaded the F.L.N. statement: "The Evian agreements are the charter of your future in Algeria. Study them and you will see that they leave open...
...Gaulle was at his happiest last week, touring the green and wooded hills of Franche-Comte, plunging like a stilt-walker amid cheering crowds, grasping outstretched hands, patting the heads of schoolchildren, and leading community sings of the Marseillaise.- He acted as if the Algerian problem were over and for gotten, and promised his listeners that now "we shall build Europe, the real Europe, the Europe of peoples, and thus the Europe of states and not of words, myths and schemings." But in Algeria there was more terror (see above), and behind him in Paris were frustrated legislators, politicians...
...equality with the U.S., will preserve the future of our liberties and peace." The signers of the manifesto represented enough votes to bring a motion of censure against De Gaulle's government, but they hesitated to embarrass De Gaulle on the eve of what may be the ultimate Algerian showdown. They also dreaded pushing him into ordering a popular referendum on the European issue when-as in all Gaullist referendums-the vote would be less on the question at issue than on De Gaulle's popularity...
...broadcast to the French nation last week. President Charles de Gaulle confidently promised that the Algerian problem "will be thoroughly resolved" by July 1. On that date, he predicted, the Moslem majority will vote for independence in the Algerian referendum and the French army will begin a gradual, three-year withdrawal. Thus France will be freed for a more active role in the world* and, De Gaulle implied, for the task of constitutional reform that would make a strong executive a permanent feature of French life. As for the "last bloody clouds" caused by the terrorism of the Secret Army...