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Since France is not willing to negotiate for an Algerian peace, the Algerian nationalists are calling on the United Nations for help, Abdelkader Chanderli declared last night. Speaking at the quincy House Forum on Africa on the subject "Algeria Before the U.N.", Chanderli stated that the Front of National Liberation (FLN) is urging the U.N. to encourage free elections in Algeria so that the six-year-old war with France can be ended...
Chanderli, permanent representative to the U.N. from the FLN, repeatedly stressed the need for self-determination in Algeria. Even DeGaulle, he said, had the political courage to admit that the Algerian people had the right to choose for themselves." De Gaulle insisted, however, that the Algerians must surrender before the terms of a self-determination policy could be discussed...
...Algerian nationalists rejected DeGaulle's proposal for negotiations under an Algerian flag of truce, Chanderli stated, because they have not lost the war. War, he said, can be stopped only by mutual settlement or by defeat of one party. "The nationalist strength is increasing every day," he emphasized, and Algeria could not be expected to capitulate merely in order to negotiate with the French...
...home, the man who was installed to end the Algerian war, is being attacked because he remains indecisive about it. From right and left last week, manifestoes were flung across France demanding solutions for Algeria, and Paris witnessed its first anti-De Gaulle riot when a mob of 3,000 young right-wingers shouting "Algeria is French!" tried to march on the presidential palace and were bloodily dispersed by club-swinging cops...
...Gaulle's onetime Tunisian supporter, President Habib Bourguiba, has now turned against him. Long eager to mediate between De Gaulle and the Algerian rebels, Bourguiba was outraged when De Gaulle refused to even see the Tunisian ambassador in Paris, Bourguiba's own son. Bourguiba ordered him recalled. As for Algeria, Bourguiba's patience seemed to have run out. Said he: "We will accept all action, all aid, all intervention. Whether it is under Russian or Chinese pressure, through American intervention, or finally by direct negotiations, any means is good...