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...exasperation one day last month, French Premier Guy Mollet turned on Christian Pineau, his Foreign Minister, who was fretting about what the U.N. would do with the troublesome Algerian problem. "What matters to me," snapped Mollet, "is not the United Nations but the United States." To hard-headed Guy Mollet it seemed self-evident that the treatment given the two-year-old Algerian revolt in the glass palace on the East River would be largely determined along the banks of the Potomac...
Behind the new autonomy in the Dark Continent is the principle laid down by Gaston Defferre, who sees the Algerian rebellion as an ominous object lesson: "To prevent is better than to cure...
What Premier Mollet wanted was U.S. support for the French argument that the U.N. has no right to interfere in the Algerian rebellion because Algeria is legally a part of France. To win this support France pulled out all the propaganda stops. From his remote hospital in French Equatorial Africa Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prizewinner for 1952, fired off a letter urging President Eisenhower to uphold the French position. In 31 U.S. newspapers there appeared a full-page ad, sponsored by nine European and Canadian newspapers, carrying the text of a Le Figaro article ominously warning...
Eurafrica. From the very beginning of the Algerian debate last week in the U.N. General Assembly's Political Committee, France showed that it was doing its best to link the vocation and the friendship. In contrast to 1955, when France boycotted a discussion of Algeria, its representative (largely to win U.S. backing) not only agreed to discuss the rebellion but even to inform the U.N. of France's plans for restoring peace in Algeria. In defensive tones, Christian Pineau outlined Mollet's Algerian program: first an unconditional ceasefire, next free elections and finally negotiation of Algeria...
...time Lodge had finished, most U.N. politicos were ready to concede that the great Algerian debate was all over except for the shouting. This promised to be considerable since at week's end 24 nations were still waiting their turn to speak. But with both the U.S. and Britain supporting France, there was little chance that any resolution unacceptable to the French could win the necessary two-thirds majority in the Assembly...