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...S.A.O. secret transmitter broke into regular radio programs with the statement: "Peace can return to this land only on condition that all those who consider Algeria as their real homeland agree among themselves." The S.A.O. announcer sneered that De Gaulle and France were no longer important since, after Algerian independence, they were "going away." The real dialogue should be between the S.A.O. and the F.L.N. as a means of "giving back to all Algerians a homeland, of bringing back fraternity and peace, and of making Algeria the foremost power of Africa...
...trial for nothing, climaxing a war for nothing." In Algeria, the Moslem F.L.N. was enraged, and asserted that in the light of the verdict S.A.O. gunmen will conclude that they have nothing to fear from French justice. Apparently just as furious, De Gaulle met with his Cabinet. Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe saw the verdict as a "blow at the morale of the forces of order, particularly the gendarmerie," which has done most of the fighting against the S.A.O. De Gaulle cried angrily: "There's no more state. There's no more democracy...
...wing Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, did try to prove in court was that his client was continuously duped by De Gaulle. He produced in court a previously unpublished letter, dated Oct. 24, 1958, in which De Gaulle flatly promised Salan that his government would never deal politically with the Algerian F.L.N. Yet fully two months before the letter was written, Tixier-Vignancour cried sarcastically, De Gaulle's agent and present Premier, Georges Pompidou, "had already made contact" with the F.L.N. on political questions and had reported to De Gaulle that "the result was encouraging." Tixier-Vignancour made another persuasive...
Though the S.A.O. had so far failed to provoke Moslems to massive retaliation against the Europeans of Algeria, there were signs that Algerian nationalist discipline was beginning to crack. Near Tlemcen, five French Spahis were killed in their sleep by Moslem soldiers. The five-man Council of Greater Algiers, which controls the city's half-million Moslem population, charged French laxity in suppressing European terrorism. In the Algiers Casbah, where Moslems have instituted their own 24-hour guard, an F.L.N. spokesman wondered how long the Algerian population could be held down: "We have a list of 5.000 known S.A.O...
...patrol European-populated cities (except for one battalion in Oran) for fear of worsening the racial strife. But from his fortified headquarters at Le Rocher Noir, he clamped a tighter curfew on Algiers, promised new tough measures, and hinted that he would ship home all French officials sabotaging the Algerian administration by go-slow tactics...