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Predictably, it was an Arab who exposed the rawest nerve of all. Without waiting for the Algerian rebels themselves to reply to De Gaulle's new peace plan (see below), Saudi Arabia's Ahmad Shukairy denounced France, De Gaulle, the new peace plan, and the French military in Algeria, whom he labeled torturers "with a thirst for blood." At this, the entire French delegation walked...
...tour through northern France last week, it was evident that Charles de Gaulle had France's masses behind him. In town after town, workers and farmers cheered as the general ringingly declared: "I am sure the French people have approved the determination to solve the Algerian problem by the heart, the soul and free vote of the inhabitants...
...points: if they rejected De Gaulle's offer out of hand, they would certainly forfeit most of the international sympathy they had won for their cause; but if they accepted all of De Gaulle's terms, including his refusal to recognize the F.L.N. as spokesman for all Algerians, they would risk loss of their leadership of the Algerian independence movement, perhaps even the defection of their military forces within Algeria...
...glowing screens in France and Algeria appeared tall, grave Charles de Gaulle, seated at his desk, ready to disclose to France and the world his plan to end the savage, five-year-old Algerian war. His words, ringing with purpose, marked a watershed in French history: "I deem it necessary that recourse to self-determination be here and now proclaimed...
...first alternative, considered the second impractical. His own preference, he made plain, was the third alternative-self-government of a type similar to that now operating in the twelve nations of France's new African Community. But even this would not come until the fighting was over: Algerians, proclaimed De Gaulle, would make their decision in elections to be held "at the latest four years after the actual restoration of peace; that is to say, once a situation has been established in which not more than 200 people a year lose their lives, either in ambushes or isolated attacks...