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France and the Algerian rebel F.L.N. last week gingerly sidled toward the subject of peace...
...Premier Ferhat Abbas made the first offer. Claiming that the massive Moslem boycott of De Gaulle's referendum in Algeria proved the "obvious authority" of the F.L.N., Ferhat Abbas announced that he was ready "to begin negotiations with the French government" for the long-awaited solution to the Algerian problem...
...revelation came from officers testifying in the treason trial of 20 Algerian insurrectionists led by Pierre Lagaillarde (who has himself fled to Spain and refuses to return). One by one, they recalled the moment when lines of police advanced on the Algiers barricades with unloaded rifles held aloft and were caught in a 20-minute crossfire from surrounding buildings. Two paratroop regiments were only 300 yds. away but refused to move until the firing was over and more than 150 police had fallen...
...rebels would maintain economic ties with France "because of the natural flow of goods between the two countries and because it would be absurd to de stroy existing markets." But soothing words do not obscure some ultimate goals: the nationalization of Algerian banks, the conversion of European vineyards to Moslem wheat fields, and the expropriation of large, European-owned estates, which will then be parceled out to Moslem farmers...
...best terms that De Gaulle could get. The problem would be to find a formula that could save face for both sides, bring the F.L.N. into the new Algeria on friendly terms. Until that attempt was made, De Gaulle was unlikely to push ahead with his promised all-Algerian government...