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...usual, just what De Gaulle's Algerian policy was remained somewhat uncertain. In a front-page editorial, Paris' normally pro-Gaullist Le Figaro grumbled that "it is not excessive for a democratic nation, in circumstances as grave as these, to ask to be informed-and clearly." Yet even such senior Cabinet officers as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville were still unsure of De Gaulle's ultimate aim: whether he still hopes to keep Algeria federated with France or is reconciled to its total independence...
...referendum next year; De Gaulle himself is said to feel that anything less than a 65% majority would be a defeat. With the nation behind him, De Gaulle can then confront the disgruntled army and the rebellious European settlers of Algeria with a "provisional"-and primarily Moslem-Algerian executive, legislature and judiciary. Stage 3, for which no precise plan exists, would find the new "Algerian Algeria" deciding whether to retain ties with France or go its separate...
...quantity was the army-which has spent an estimated 16,-ooo lives trying to stamp out the F.L.N. guerrillas. Defense Minister Pierre Messmer and General Paul Ely, in Algiers on a "fact-finding" mission, discovered one self-evident fact: the Army's "consternation" at the possibility of an Algerian republic or a unilateral cease-fire by France. At the burial ceremony last week of ten Foreign Legion paratroopers killed in battle with the F.L.N., tough Colonel Jean Dufour, with tears in his eyes, said: "It is not possible their sacrifice has been in vain. It is not possible that...
...Lagaillarde, the flamboyant Deputy who dominated the Algiers barricades. "It's a slap in De Gaulle's face," crowed one ultra. "Even the judges he chose saw the light." And in the top echelons of the government, doubts as to the wisdom or workability of the new Algerian program were so strong that half a dozen Cabinet members, including Finance Minister Wilfrid Baumgartner and Interior Minister Pierre Chatenet, were rumored to be on their...
...promise from Morocco's former French masters of twelve Mistral jet fighters to form the nucleus of a new Royal Moroccan Air Force. Last week, on the eve of the "three glorious days," the French welshed, irritated with Morocco's increasingly active support of the Algerian rebels...