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...proclaim that [the rebel leaders] will have the same place as all others -no more, no less- the hearing, the share, the place granted them by the votes of the citizens. Why then should the odious strife and fratricidal murders that are still drenching the Algerian soil with blood continue, unless they be the work of a group of ambitious agitators determined to establish by brute force and terror their totalitarian dictatorship? The future of Algeria rests with the Algerians, not as thrust upon them by knife and machine gun, but according to the will which they will express legitimately...
...steps of the Elysee Palace to the accompaniment, of ruffles and nourishes from the silver-helmeted Garde Republi-caine. When they finally marched down again, the Ivory Coast's Premier Felix Houphouet-Boigny beamingly announced: "We are unanimous in approving and supporting President de Gaulle in his Algerian policy as he has revealed it to us." Appetite whetted by such entrancing tidbits, all France waited this week for Charles de Gaulle to disclose his new plan for ending the five-year-old Algerian...
Best guess was that De Gaulle's scheme would then provide for "electoral consultation" with the Algerian people to allow them at least limited self-determination of their future relationship with France. Either through a popular referendum or an elected Assembly, Algerians might be permitted to choose among full integration of Algeria with France, some form of regional autonomy within the French Republic, or home rule as a member of the French Community in Africa. In time-perhaps after five years-Algeria might even be granted the right to opt for full independence...
...usual fierce resolutions denouncing Israel, the eight ministers present added impassioned protestations of support for the Algerian rebels. But the two Arab nations that had done the most for the Algerian nationalists-Tunisia, by giving the F.L.N. rebels a base on its soil, and Iraq, by sending them some $10 million in cash-boycotted the whole conference. Tunisia stayed away because President Bourguiba insists that the League is still dominated by Egypt's Nasser, and Iraq refused to attend for the same reason. And even as the men in Casablanca talked unity, Radio Baghdad broadcast new testimony that Nasser...
...came in Paris. On the crucial question of Algeria, which occupied more than one-third of Ike's talks with De Gaulle, the French President gave his outline of a new plan to settle the rebellion. Leaks had it that De Gaulle would propose elections for a new Algerian assembly and executive with whom negotiations on Algeria's political future would be conducted. The plan would not require a rebel cease-fire as a precondition to a settlement, leaving this open in the hope that public opinion in Algeria would by itself force the rebels to stop fighting...