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This critic must conress his disappointment in the Algerian Reports. They are topical, a little over-simplified, and a bit too glib. Especially annoying is the tinge of 19th-century liberalism in the appeal for unity and good will where substantive agreement is impossible. Algeria is the one subject on which Camus' patriotic emotions seem to have overwhelmed his lucidity. Even as this is written, the inadequacy of sham solidarity is being made apparent. Yet the values implicit in Camus' appeal are not inconsistent with those of his more dispassionate statements...
...association with France, or a partitioned Algeria. In the event that Algeria chose to sever all ties, he warned, the Europeans, who "too have the right of self-determination," would "have to be relocated by us and their protection assured." And he vowed to deport the 400,000 Algerian Moslems who dig the ditches and clear the streets of Metropolitan France- and whose remittances keep some 2,000,000 of their relatives back home alive. "Naturally, we should cease immediately to sink in a henceforth hopeless enterprise our resources, our men and our money. The fact is that...
Mayor Camille Blanc of Evian-les-Bains, a quiet resort town on the French side of Lake Geneva, set out thousands of tulips in the town square and issued a message of assurance. The peace talks scheduled to begin there this week between France and the Algerian rebels would not turn the place into a madhouse, he said. "Don't worry, it will be a season just like any other year." A Resistance hero, the burly mayor owned the tidy Beau-Rivage Hotel and was the most popular man in town. He did not mention the threatening letters...
...Evian talks still had barriers of mistrust to cross. The F.L.N. position is that France may "consult" with all Algerian factions but must negotiate only with the F.L.N. Last week F.L.N. tempers flared when Louis Joxe, De Gaulle's Minister for Algeria, said that he would meet with a small Moslem group, the Mouvement National Algérien (M.N.A.), "as I will meet with the F.L.N...
...M.N.A is headed by bearded Messali Hadj, 63, who was 'once as fanatic as the F.L.N. zealots. But after years of house arrest in France, he now espouses "association" with the French, has lost nearly all influence in Algeria itself; now his support comes chiefly from Algerian workers in France. Angrily, the F.L.N. dismissed the M.N.A. as "colonialist lackeys" and declared that the Evian talks were off unless France "makes an official statement clarifying the meaning of M. Joxe's declaration...