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Biggest storm blew up not over the loi-cadre itself but over Pierre Mendès-France's plea that France could not afford to wave off Tunisian-Moroccan offers to mediate a settlement with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Mendès was howled down. He managed to finish only after his bitter political enemy Georges Bidault shouted: "If Mendès-France has not the right to speak here, then no one has the right to reply...
...abolished the old system, which weighted voting in favor of "non-Moslems" (French), and replaced it with universal suffrage. This was qualified by a system of proportional representation that would assure Frenchmen of some seats even in areas where their vote is very small. After two years, an all-Algerian Assembly with power over all but defense and diplomatic matters would be chosen by the territorial assemblies...
...they have undertaken the destruction of other parties in the purest totalitarian tradition. In the interior of the country the bands fight at gunpoint over control of the sectors that bring in the fattest dividends in pillage and gunrunning. In the first ten months of 1957 alone, about 600 Algerian Moslems have been killed in France and more than 2.000 wounded, victims of other Algerian Moslems. [In Algeria itself] between Nov. 1, 1954 and Nov. 1, 1957, the rebels murdered 8,429 civilians, of whom 310 were women and 120 children. This tragic picture includes 1,126 European victims...
...proportion of Moslems killed by those who claim they are fighting on behalf of the Algerian people is, therefore, approximately seven Moslems to one European. If any conclusion is to be drawn from these figures, it is that the rebellion does not enjoy spontaneous support from Moslems. The F.L.N. relies more on totalitarian methods than the support it might get from public opinion...
...define what it has called the "Algerian personality,'' the government has deemed it necessary to undertake, without delay, the application of a program in its loi-cadre. It permits of an evolution, in liberty and respect for human dignity, of institutions which undoubtedly do not embody all virtues, but make possible without further delay the promotion of a new elite in whose hands will be placed the future of the country...