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...these words, more clearly than any French politician to date, France's President announced his nation's determination to cling to rebellious Algeria. It was phrased as a warning to Algerian nationalists, and France's allies abroad, but it was an appeal to dissident Frenchmen-including such leading intellectuals as Sorbonne Professor Raymond Aron (TIME, July 1), Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Europeanist Andre Philip-who have grown tired of the expensive hopelessness of the struggle in Algeria...
...bring about an independence-with-interdependence settlement through NATO or the "good offices" of Tunisian and Moroccan leaders, and, if there is no substantial progress toward the goal by the time the U.N. General Assembly meets next September, to support "an international effort" toward the goal of Algerian independence...
Without Nightmares? To Administration ears, Kennedy's Algeria speech sounded like troublesome meddling, possibly part of the buildup of his stock as a Democratic presidential nominee in 1960. Secretary of State Dulles at his news conference replied that he would be "very sorry" to see the Algerian crisis, with its "great difficulty and complexity," become a U.S. problem. And "if anyone is interested in going after colonialism," said Dulles, he should look to the enslaved nations behind the Iron Curtain. Added Dwight Eisenhower at his midweek press conference: the "best role...
...compared to what the French were saying. In Brest, French organizations conspicuously boycotted U.S. Fourth of July celebrations in protest. Rumbled irate Defense Minister André Morice: "I don't know if Monsieur Kennedy spends peaceful nights without nightmares, but I do know that [his help to the Algerian rebels] will cost many more innocent lives and help prolong a drama that would have ended long ago if thoughtless friends had weighed their words and acts...
Kennedy acknowledged that his aim was to wake up the world to the Algerian situation. But his cannon cracker had done more than that. By sorely annoying the hard-pressed French and pushing the State Department into a position that sorely annoyed Africans and Asians, it seemed to have been all bang and no benefit...