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...once again barring debate on the admission of Red China to the U.N., the Soviets were able to rally 34 in favor of putting it on the agenda. While the U.S., in deference to its NATO allies, uncomfortably abstained on resolutions demanding quick abolition of colonialism and endorsing the Algerian rebels, the Communists happily joined the Afro-Asians, posing as the greatest anti-colonialists ever. Finally, last week, the Soviet delegates watched gleefully as a solid group of Africans joined the Reds in defeating (by one vote) a U.S. effort to promote a round-table conference of Congolese leaders...
...have, in the past, hindered assimilation of the Moslems-supposing that were possible." But the fact that "the Moslem- form eight-ninths of the population, and that this percentage is constantly increasing in their favor," led De Gaulle to the conclusion that "the Algeria of tomorrow, then, will be Algerian. The Algerians will conduct their own affairs, and it will be up to them alone to found a state with its own government, its own institution and its own laws...
Though De Gaulle did not say so, he obviously hoped that this interim government would demonstrate the advantages of "association" with France. Equally obviously, he did not plan to hold the "decisive referendum" until the new Algerian Algeria had had a fair trial in terms of time...
...most Frenchmen it seems to be the only one with a chance of success. At the United Nations, in tacit recognition of De Gaulle's obvious good intentions, France's former colonies in Africa and its Western allies united to defeat the demand for an Algerian referendum on self-determination held under U.N. auspices...
Make or Break. President Charles de Gaulle, touring the Algerian countryside, went pale with fury at the news of the riots. To an aide he snapped: "All those who are responsible-I will break them!" Cutting short his tour by a day. De Gaulle went to Bone to emplane for Paris. Gunfire accompanied his take-off as European and Moslem crowds angrily shouted their rival slogans. Foreign Legion paratroops, long the darlings of the European extremists, tried to separate the demonstrators. The European rioters refused to disperse. For the first time in Algerian history, French troops opened fire...