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...courtroom in Algiers earlier in the week, Jacef Saadi, onetime boss of Moslem terrorists in the Algiers casbah (TIME, Oct. 7), astounded his French judges by "rallying to De Gaulle." Saadi offered no apologies for the murders he had committed in the name of the Algerian people-and for which the court promptly sentenced him to death. But, said he, "if General de Gaulle had remained on the political scene after the war, if our rights had been recognized earlier, this drama would never have happened...
They saw that the Cyprus quarrel was rending the eastern end of the NATO alliance; they worried whether the Algerian and Lebanese rebellions would drive the whole Moslem world into neutralism or worse. But though these problems affected the balance of power between Russia and the U.S., they all predated the cold war, which was not even a dominant issue in the eyes of the people most concerned. In each case, today's rioters and peacemakers were the heirs of a contest of over 2,000 years for the possession of every fought-over foot of the Mediterranean littoral...
...Middle Eastern peoples ever since the Romans seized mastery of North Africa from the onetime Phoenician colony of Carthage. Vandals, Byzantines and Arabs have all contributed to the blood that is being shed in Algeria, and though it is frequently described as a straight-out colonial issue, the Algerian rebellion is, in fact, a civil war between Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems and 1,000,000 Europeans, some of whom are not mere immigrant settlers but descend from families that have lived in North Africa for a century...
Even harder to bear was the return to De Gaulle of Jacques Soustelle, the beetle-browed ex-Governor General of Algeria whose demagogic appeals for integration into France had made him the white hope of the Algerian diehards. At De Gaulle's behest, Soustelle last week slipped off to Paris in a special plane, trailing behind him uncharacteristically moderate remarks about "federal possibilities" for Algeria, and a cloud of rumors that he was about to receive a government post. Watching him go, the diehards suddenly recognized that there might be more than one explanation for the fact that cold...
Abandoned by their idols and outflanked by the Army-which has quietly taken over almost all key posts in the Algerian civil administration-the diehards had little choice but to make what amounted to a humiliating confession of defeat, joining the other members of the Public Safety Committee in a pledge of "devotion to General de Gaulle...