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...French army will carry out a phased withdrawal, though still retaining the Mers-el-Kebir naval base and the Reggane atomic testing grounds in the Sahara. At the end of that period, general elections will be held, and the Europeans still remaining can opt for either French or Algerian citizenship...
BIGGEST share of the credit for France's settlement with the F.L.N. goes to Louis Joxe, 60, the witty, wily diplomat who is Charles de Gaulle's Minister of State for Algerian Affairs. In November 1960 when he was handed the thankless task of ending the war, Joxe based his strategy on the theory that negotiating with the embittered, intractable representatives of Algeria's provisional government was not so much a diplomatic assignment as "guerrilla warfare, transposed to the political plane...
...real test of Louis Joxe's nerves came last fortnight when the Algerian government agreed to a last-ditch attempt to reach a settlement. Joxe was convinced that the Algerians would be able to resist pressure from their own anti-French extremists only if the negotiations were hermetically sealed off from newsmen. As a meeting place Joxe chose Les Rousses, a crowded but unfashionable French ski resort near the Swiss border. There the French team took over the government-owned Chalet du Yeti (the Cottage of the Abominable Snowman). The Algerians, quartered across the border at a lakeside resort...
...after De Gaulle had returned to power, Joxe became Secretary of State to Premier Debré, presided over far-reaching government reforms. According to friends, Joxe was disappointed that he had not become De Gaulle's Foreign Minister, but he has performed so brilliantly in the Algerian negotiations that last week Frenchmen were already discussing him as a possible Premier...
...American wanderer of European background, whose strongest characteristic is a persistent fretfulness and a concern for the color of clothes. What has maimed him, he thinks, is his frustrated passion for his bitch-wife, Liliane. But his strongest attachment is to a young, handsome male servant, an Algerian named Jeannot...