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This week the people of France went to the polls to vote on two linked questions: i) approval of De Gaulle's peace agreement with the Algerian F.L.N., and 2) empowering De Gaulle to take all "necessary" measures relating to Algeria...
...Algeria "no longer makes sense." The new Algeria, he declared, "will respect the interest of our country and provide the necessary guarantees for the community of French stock." On April 8, the voters of Metropolitan France will say yes or no to De Gaulle's solution of the Algerian problem, and he asked that the nation reply "affirmatively and massively." Virtually every political party has rallied to De Gaulle's support. Socialist Leader Guy Mollet said flatly, "The sense of our 'Yes' is to make the criminals who want to prevent peace in Algeria understand that...
...Algerian F.L.N. army emerged last week from seven years of obscure guerilla war with France. At once tightly guarded Camp Ben M'hidi, near the Moroccan border town of Oudjda. newsmen witnessed a march-past of 1,200 F.L.N...
leader freed last month by the French after five years' imprisonment. For Ben Bella it was truly a homecoming, since he had been born of an Algerian father and Moroccan mother within 15 miles of Oudjda. The camp, formerly a French supply depot, was decorated with rebel flags and banners proclaiming in French and Arabic such long-winded slogans as "The triumph of our revolution demands absolute unity, organized action, solid leadership and well-defined aims." On an inspection of border outposts within gunshot of French positions. Ben Bella, though still pale and out of condition from his long...
Abderrahmane Fares, 50, is chairman of the twelve-man French-Moslem Provisional Executive charged with responsibility for Algeria's administration and the conduct of the referendum (probably in June) in which Algerians are expected to vote overwhelmingly for "independence in cooperation with France." A rotund bon vivant as fluent in French as Arabic, Fares comes from a Berber family (his father was killed fighting with the French army at Verdun in World War I), and at 25 became the first Moslem notary public in Algeria. After the rebellion began in 1954. the French government sent Fares on a lecture...