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Only last January, after quelling a settlers' revolt in Algiers and cracking down hard on its army backers, the President had seemed the unchallenged master of events, quite evidently on his way to ending the Algerian rebellion by applying his proclaimed principle of self-determination. Then, at Melun last summer, he laid down such exacting terms at the first peace parleys that the rebels turned away and flung themselves into the arms of Moscow and Peking, in search of military and diplomatic support...
...this atmosphere of disintegration and defiance, De Gaulle delivered a short, powerful broadcast. He proclaimed a new course in Algeria: "This course no longer leads to an Algeria governed by Metropolitan France, but to an Algerian Algeria- an Algeria that will have its own government, its institutions, and its laws." If the new Algeria chose to break with France, "we would certainly not persist in remaining by force alongside people who would reject...
There was no longer any mention of the possibility that Algeria would choose union with France. To the open threats of some army officers that they will revolt if Algeria is lost, De Gaulle replied that he would call a popular referendum, if necessary, to put through his Algerian decision. More than that, he threatened to dissolve Parliament and, as a last resort, take up the dictatorial powers open to him under his constitution's Article 16 if extremists stand...
...French press. Private protests to De Gaulle (as well, perhaps, as De Gaulle's own sense of a free press's rights) have so far prevented the bill's being offered to the Assembly. But last week, as critics of De Gaulle and the Algerian war grew more vociferous, the drawer was half open...
...Algeria and the Congo. Houphouet-Boigny swore the delegates to secrecy until he could fly off to Paris to press the results on his good friend Charles de Gaulle. But the gist of the policy leaked. Houphouet-Boigny will urge De Gaulle to soften his terms for an Algerian ceasefire. In the U.N. the eleven states will doubtless oppose any condemnation of France on Algeria, but will support a U.N.-supervised referendum to determine Algeria's future. De Gaulle has rejected the U.N. referendum in the past, but even he should recognize that Houphouet-Boigny had gone...