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Only the most legalistic Frenchman could argue last week that the Algerian rebellion was a strictly domestic problem. Morocco's Mohammed V conferred with Secretary Dulles about it in Washington, the U.N. debated it in New York, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan went to Paris to reassure Premier Félix Gaillard of British backing (but refused to pledge that Britain under no circumstances would supply more arms to Tunisia...
...were indeed delighted to see that the CRIMSON had expressed itself firmly on the Algerian problem. While in full accord with the main line of your article, we should nonetheless like to point out what are, to our minds at least, slight discrepancies...
Sending arms to Bourguiba means siding with the anti-colonialist, with the Algerian F.L.N. Apparently you feel this is the only solution; some reflection will show that this is not the case. Even Mohammed V, who ordered the disbanding of the Popular Movement branch of the Istiqual, that is the pro-F.L.N. Moroccan party, even Bourguiba, who expressed much annoyance at the F.L.N.'s disavowal of Yazid, and its constant demand for total independence before negotiation, during his talk with the F.L.N. in Tunis last month, feels that the idea of a totally autonomous Algeria is impracticable...
...needs no prodding from any one at all; as you well know, of the 272 deputies who voted against the Loi Cadre, 159 did so because they felt it too weak. France is ready to conduct elections under the aegis of the United Nations; the F.L.N. is not. The Algerian war, for the mass of the French population, is not a colonialist war. The war in Algeria is not between colonialists and anti-colonialists; it is between partisans of gradual independence, and extremists, largely interested in exterminating one another as at Melouzza, extremists who are every ounce as narrow-minded...
...should be changed. West Germany and Italy want each country to confer with its NATO allies before taking any major decisions. Their notion is to restrain such unhappy ventures as France and Britain's sally into Suez. France, which considers that the U.S. and British interfered in the Algerian war by sending arms to Tunisia and is angry about it, will demand just the opposite-hands off at least, loyal support at best, on policies which the individual country deems vital to its own interests. The French are also deeply suspicious of the talk of interdependence and "efficient" division...