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...Joined Britain at the United Nations in backing France's claim that France should be allowed to settle her problems in rebellious Algeria in her own way (see FOREIGN NEWS). Thus standing off the Afro-Asian bloc's demands for an immediate Algerian cease-fire and elections, the U.S. served notice that it does not intend to carry its enthusiasm for burgeoning independence movements to the extreme of upsetting well-established friendly governments...
...Algerian question now goes to the General Assembly...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 13--The U.N. Political Committee today called on France and the Algerian people to enter into negotiations to end the bloodshed in North Africa...
Ultras and Actionists. He was not the only one preparing for action. The shadowy leaders of the Algerian rebellion, working mostly out of Cairo, were issuing promissory notes: 60,000 francs ($170) for every loyal Algerian or Frenchman killed by their hired assassins. To show the U.N. how powerful their influence is after two years of civil war in Algeria, they ordered an eight-day general strike of all Arabs in Algeria and France. Algerians literally sniffed the arrival of the killers whose job was to make the strike stick: young Arab gunmen who invariably spend a portion of their...
Seeking Stendhalian clarity on this point, Mollet last week addressed a letter to 34 party leaders (not including Communists or Poujadists). Wrote Mollet: "The chiefs of the Algerian rebellion . . . will refuse to accept our offer of a cease-fire so long as they can hope that France may change its Algerian policy ... It is important . . . that there be no misunderstanding about the continuity of the policy during the present legislature . . ." On the eve of the critical U.N. debate on Algeria, Mollet asked for and got a blank check...