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...Algerian rebels last week answered Charles de Gaulle's proposal for cease-fire talks (TIME, Nov. 23) with a yes that was meant to be taken...
...negotiations with France "to discuss the conditions and applications" of the self-determination vote that De Gaulle has promised Algeria. The rebels even named their proposed representatives : five rebel officials headed by Mohammed ben Bella, 40, the bemedaled former French army sergeant who was the chief organizer of the Algerian revolt and the man most regarded as the villain by right-wing French settlers in Algeria...
...rebels chosen to give De Gaulle an answer they knew he could not accept? The likeliest explanation was that they were counting on a U.N. vote of condemnation against France when the General Assembly debates the Algerian question in the next few weeks, and recognized that their chances of getting one would be slim, unless they made at least a pretense of accepting De Gaulle's call for negotiations...
...another issue in the U.N. last week, the vote went badly for France. Led by the same Afro-Asian bloc that supports the Algerian rebels, the U.N. General Assembly-which has never condemned any previous nuclear tests-by a vote of 51 to 16 called upon France to abandon plans for exploding its first A-bomb in the Sahara some time next year. The U.S.. and Britain sided with France...
...plan, de Gaulle is thus led to oppose reunification of Germany--a stand unpopular with German public opinion, but necessary to his design. At present, time is working for the French. Their industry is expanding rapidly; their birth rate is the highest in Europe; and the end of the Algerian war will strengthen their power on the Continent...