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...United States has finally made its decision in North Africa. The value of making a choice should have been apparent to the State Department months ago. The two comparatively clear-cut alternatives, support for French colonialism or Algerian independence, are not irreconcilable, but are of a sufficiently inflammatory nature to require United States recognition...
Politicians of the FLN executive committee are led by 58-year-old Ferhat Abbas, "grand old man" of Algerian politics and a onetime moderate, whose failure to wring concessions from France has turned him into an embittered extremist. His close aide is Dr. Mohammed Lamine-Debaghine, 40, bitterly anti-French veteran nationalist who is subject to bouts of depression caused by attacks of neuralgia that partially paralyze his face. Both he and Abbas have served as Deputies in the French Assembly...
Sandbags Down. As the Algerian rebellion went into its fourth year, the French counted 45,000 deaths (including 4,920 French military). The FLN has admitted temporary defeat in its campaign of terrorism in Algeria's larger towns-curfews remain, but sandbags and barbed wire are coming down, and life has been slowly returning to normal. But outside the cities, the FLN boasted an organized strength of 100,000 men, and a French army officer conceded FLN was "better armed and better trained than ever before." The reality, as always, was hard to sort out from the claims. Last...
...Host Bourguiba was openly distressed at the FLN's manifesto refusing all negotiations unless France first recognized Algeria's independence. Nor was there any sign that they would call off the savage campaign of terror and murder they have loosed on the rival MNA (a more moderate Algerian nationalist group supported, FLN leaders claim, by the French) in France itself. MNA sympathizers have been gunned down in full daylight on Paris avenues and on Metro platforms. Since the first of the year, 570 Algerians have been murdered in France...
...with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...