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Returning to Blida a convinced nationalist, Benkhedda wrote patriotic pamphlets and organized a group to paint the town red with slogans for Algerian independence. He vividly recalls being surprised by the police one night. He and his friends just barely managed to conceal their brushes and paint cans beneath their flowing djellabas. The police took it for granted that the freshly painted signs could not be the work of the supposedly illiterate and frightened Moslems who stood before them...
Hundreds of Algerian students are enrolled in Iron Curtain universities. One returned raving about the glories of life in drab East Germany. An F.L.N. leader said apologetically: "Of course, it looked good to him. He was, say, 13, at the beginning of the rebellion, and has spent the last five years either as a rebel in the hills or in a refugee camp. Why shouldn't even East Germany look wonderful?" Benkhedda himself, although he distrusts Soviet-policy, has occasionally spouted Red cliches. He has compared Algeria's struggle with France to Latin America's struggle against...
...have made a major effort to help us, not just make propaganda with a trickle of aid." Internationally, the F.L.N.'s Algeria is not likely to be subservient to either Moscow or Peking; most probably it will follow a "neutralist" line similar to Egypt or Yugoslavia. France takes Algerian neutralism for granted, but feels that it has the three-year transitional period to make Algeria "neutral toward the West," not the East. During the three years, it will also be up to France to weave a tissue of economic ties that will survive. Already France has conceded that Algeria...
...four years since he came to power, Charles de Gaulle has bent the bulk of his energies toward solving the Algerian problem. Never humble, even in adversity, De Gaulle will not yield to the reasoning of his opponents "that if he succeeds in Algeria, he will no longer be necessary." Instead, the French people will be reminded of their debt to the man who might adapt Louis XIV's reputed maxim to read La nation...
...National Assembly so that eventually he can push through constitutional reforms. Members of the Gaullist U.N.R. (Union for the New Republic) have asked that the referendum and the elections be held at the same time so that they can cash in on the electoral profits of the Algerian peace. But De Gaulle has demurred. With an overwhelming 85% of the voters sure to vote for the settlement, he does not want the referendum clouded by any other issue...