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...rendered France "under the flag of the Republic." This farce had been scarcely played out when the Deputies went on to vote 473 to 93 in favor of giving Pflimlin special powers in Algeria-powers which Pflimlin blandly promised to delegate to General Raoul Salan, commander of the rebellious Algerian army...
...kind of legislature - the 70-man All-Algeria Committee of Public Safety. They also had an executive, "united unto death"-a three-man supreme junta composed of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, Paratroop General Jacques Massu, and slight, intense Mohammed Sid Cara, a Moslem physician who served as Secretary for Algerian Affairs in the last government...
Above all. the insurgents had a policy for ending the Algerian war-a policy so radical that no French government had ever dared to put it into effect. While Moslems and Frenchmen alike cheered him on, burly Jacques Soustelle, who escaped a police guard in Paris to fly to Algiers, called for complete political integration of 1,000,000 French and 8,700,000 Moslem Algerians. Cried Soustelle: "Let each one of us be French like all the rest, with the same rights and duties...
...Geneva, Ferhat Abbas, elder statesman of F.L.N., Algeria's Moslem independence movement, promptly denounced Soustelle's program as "a crude maneuver against Algerian nationalism." But from Algiers, TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported...
Even more appealing than the chance to go to town and celebrate, with all expenses paid, was the name De Gaulle. Among Algerian Moslems, De Gaulle has the reputation of a liberator and a liberal. By the mere fact of talking recently with Algerian nationalist leaders, he has in Moslem eyes recognized Algerian nationalism. And to the average Algerian, who has little use for institutions and great respect for individual leaders, De Gaulle stands for power and authority in the old-fashioned tribal sense...