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Talking over the dispute between France and Tunis with a covey of senior Tunisian government officials one day last week, U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy found that the conversation had turned to the Algerian war. Gently Murphy suggested that the conference get back to the subject it was supposed to be discussing: Tunisian demands for the evacuation of all French military bases in Tunisia...
Murphy's inability to keep the Algerian war out of conversational play was an inevitable consequence of 1) the weakness and confusion of France in crisis, and 2) the tightrope-walking nature of his own "good offices" mission. In Paris earlier in the week, France's Premier Felix Gaillard had belabored Murphy with the paradoxical French arguments that, on the one hand, "the essential question dividing France and Tunisia is the aid which the Algerian rebellion gets from Tunisian territory"; on the other, the Algerian war is a purely French concern and hence outside the scope of Murphy...
There is little doubt that Mr. A. K. Chanderli and his cause of Algerian independence were done a disservice by the publication of last Thursday's report in the CRIMSON, a disservice by the way, which he did not deserve...
Mutual Assistance. Last week the French Cabinet decided on a drastic measure to end Tunisian aid to Algeria. They propose to establish an artificial no man's land 6 to 30 miles wide along the Algerian side of the frontier. All civilians-an estimated 70,000-will be evacuated from this area, and French patrols and aircraft will have orders to shoot anything that moves within the forbidden zone. To deny the rebels cover, the French plan to burn off a huge area of scrub forest with napalm over a period of three months. "If so much...
...unlikely to accept any such proposal. With 70,000 men, the F.L.N.'s army is one of the biggest in the Arab world, far overshadows the 6,200 lightly armed soldiers of the Tunisian army. If Bourguiba now agrees to help France end the traffic across the Tunisian-Algerian frontier, the F.L.N. and its Tunisian sympathizers could, and perhaps would, run him and his government out of office...