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...part, the F.L.N. agreed to: 1) a three-year transition period during which the French army will gradually withdraw from Algeria; 2) lease special bases to France, e.g., the naval port of Mers-el-Kebir, the Reggan nuclear test site in the Sahara; 3) accept as Algerian citizens those Europeans who make that choice...
...they stood on the threshold of independence, Algeria's Moslems could feel like men who had broken through a time barrier. The F.L.N.'s first Premier and grand old man Ferhat Abbas wrote despairingly in 1934: "If I had discovered an Algerian nation I would be a nationalist. Men who die for a patriotic ideal are honored and respected. But I would not die for an Algerian fatherland because such a fatherland does not exist. I cannot find it. I questioned history. I questioned the living and the dead. I searched through the cemeteries. Nobody could speak...
France's De Gaulle sent a delegation headed by his trusted Algerian Affairs Minister, Louis Joxe. The F.L.N. delegation was headed by Vice Premier Belkacem Krim, a former French army noncom. As the delegates met in Evian's cream-colored Hotel du Pare, they had only to look out the window for evidence that Salan's S.A.O.* was still desperately trying to sabotage peace. French security forces prowled the town, armed motorboats guarded the water approaches over Lake Geneva, army halftracks along the esplanade pointed the snouts of antiaircraft guns skyward. In Paris, the S.A.O. struck massively...
Unable to find work at home, 400,000 Algerian Moslems have emigrated to France and help keep their families from starvation by sending home $25 million a year from their factory wages. An independent Algeria must find a solution to the vicious circle of capital formation that plagues all underdeveloped countries: capital is in short supply because savings are small; savings are small because wages are low; wages are low because productivity is deficient. But to increase productivity requires capital...
...only a Turkish colony.-Graduating from the lycee, Benkhedda went on to study pharmacy-as did ex-Premier Ferhat Abbas-at the University of Algiers. He read incendiary tracts by Voltaire and Rousseau about human dignity, liberty and the rights of man-a reminder that the Algerian Revolution, like most colonial independence movements, really grew out of Western ideals. Benkhedda argued the night through with friends over how the Moslem masses could be raised from misery to prosperity...