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...been all set to shell him for freeing Tunisia and Morocco without winning Arab help in pacifying Algeria. But after Mendes-France pulled out in dissatisfaction over the lack of genuine reforms in Algeria, the big guns of the Right, which favor the tough elements of Mollet's Algerian policy, fell silent. The biggest thunder on the Left came from Stalin Peace Prizewinner Pierre Cot. "A war that France cannot wage and does not want," he cried. "The only thing to do is negotiate." But Mollet's attack made its own breaks. Just in time, the government announced...
...kind of risk. Though 350,000 French troops are committed, and the hostilities have claimed some 50,000 deaths on both sides, France does not recognize the conflict as a war. Result: a legalistic no man's land in which reporters trying conscientiously to get the Algerian side of the story by meeting with fellagha leaders either in Paris or Algiers put themselves at the mercy of French security and treason laws...
Last September the French government arrested Robert Barrat, wartime resistance leader and stringer correspondent for the U.S. Catholic weekly Commonweal. For meeting Algerian leaders and writing sympathetic stories in France Observateur...
Almost unnoticed in the uproar over Mendès' resignation, India's Prime Minister Nehru took a hand in France's Algerian troubles. Speaking to the Indian Parliament, Nehru called on both sides to adopt a ceasefire. After that, he suggested, the French government should recognize "the national entity and personality of Algeria ... on the basis of freedom," and enter into direct negotiations with the rebels. Since Nehru has considerable influence in the Arab-Asian bloc, Frenchmen noted gratefully that he had refrained from backing the rebels' demand for "independence," and had further urged "recognition that...
...army was striking the most telling blows of the bitter, 19-month war. For Algeria's 9,000,000 acres of grain are vital for France as well as Algeria (Algeria is France's No.1 customer). Last week 300,000 French troops were trying desperately to protect Algerian farmers getting in the harvest...