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...peace talks with Algerian nationalists fail, De Gaulle went on, he will partition Algeria, regrouping French Algerians and pro-French Moslems in the coastal cities. For both sides, the implications of partition were staggering. Even in Algiers, Moslems outnumber Europeans 400,000 to 300,000, and the city Moslems have been passionately dedicated to the F.L.N. cause. Presumably they would have to be evacuated to the Moslem area at the cost of hopelessly dislocating the industrial and commercial life of the city. The probable French area contains 74% of the country's industries, does 77% of its business...
...There would be no special guarantees for the rights of Algeria's 1,000,000 Europeans after independence, the rebels insisted. Nor would the French be allowed to hang on to the vast Sahara region and its oil; the Sahara must become an integral part of the new Algerian nation. As for France's unilateral ceasefire in the Algerian war announced last month, the F.L.N. replied by stepping up their own killing: in the 19 days following the opening of the Evian conference, 133 people have been killed and 300 wounded by the terrorists in Algeria alone...
Swirling Snow. During the 48 hours before the Kennedys arrived, a dozen Paris gun fights left two policemen dead and four Algerians wounded. Gendarmes piled 931 suspect Algerians into paddy wagons and carted them off to jail. Right-wing activists set off six plastic bombs. In Algiers, Police Commissioner Roger Gavoury was stabbed to death in his apartment just eight days after beginning to investigate the European terrorist group called the Secret Armed Organization. At Evian-les-Bains, as snow swirled outside the windows, French and Algerian F.L.N. delegates sat arguing around a wide conference table and seemed...
...French, Belkacem Krim was clearly a better guerrilla leader than a diplomat; he understood little of the give and take of negotiation. Yet last week Krim was winning good marks for his leadership of the F.L.N. delegation at the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains. France's Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe was impressed by Krim's obvious sincerity, his single-mindedness, and the studied moderation of his language. "He and his kind were hunted like wolves for years on end," said one French delegate. "It would be futile to expect an F.L.N. leader...
...week's end French Delegate Joxe made a flying trip to Paris to see De Gaulle, returned to tell newsmen at Evian that "all interested persons," i.e., the F.L.N.. will be consulted "in detail" before an Algerian referendum on a choice between independence, association or "Francization." He implied that France was prepared to accept joint French-F.L.N. supervision of the referendum. Joxe also sought to calm F.L.N. fears of a partition of Algeria on racial lines. Though citing India as a nation that had been forced to accept partition, Joxe maintained that France would do its best...