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...Algeria. So far, it is the dominant one in French politics. But more and more Frenchmen are beginning to talk more openly about "solutions" for Algeria. None has been so outspoken as thin, hawk-nosed Raymond Aron, respected French political commentator and Sorbonne professor. In a slim book, The Algerian Tragedy, published last week and an immediate sensation in Paris, Aron argues that only false pride prevents Frenchmen from recognizing Algeria's "vocation" for independence...
Humiliation. Says Aron: "If France had voluntarily accorded in 1954 (in Tunisia and Morocco) what she finally accorded under the pressure of terrorism, she would not be suffering from this intolerable feeling of humiliation." Aron's advice: negotiate with the Algerian rebels, slowly transfer power to the Moslem nationalists, and spend a fraction of the cost of the war repatriating Algeria's Europeans to France. Until recently Aron was as insistent as most Frenchmen that only by holding Algeria could France continue a great power...
Aron has no categorical answer to the question that troubles every Frenchman: Can a French minority remain, one million against eight million, in an Algerian Republic? But, he warns, "the longer the pacifying war continues, the more the chances of peaceful cohabitation between the two communities diminish." In the long run the men who govern an Algerian Republic, "unless they are carried away by mad blindness, cannot ignore the need they will have of France." For Aron the crux of the question is the formation of this Algerian state-"a difficult enterprise, and nobody can guarantee its success...
...grandson of a marshal of France, and an ex-army officer with a hard-earned World War II resistance record, he is a man of proven courage. A minister in six postwar governments, who as head of Defense had spearheaded the Suez adventure and the get-tough Algerian policy, he has political experience, ambition, determination. What probably caused Bourgès' voice to break like an adolescent's as he read out his speech was that he knew as well as everyone else that his program offered no solution for France's financial crisis, no hope...
...Interior and Defense. A strong pro-European who quit the Mendés-France Cabinet in 1954 after the defeat of EDC, he has been fighting Mendés-France ever since within the Radical Socialist Party. The chief architect of Suez intervention, he is 100% behind the muscular Algerian policy...