Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific program, designed to meet the challenges of the next decade, includes continued military buildup regardless of cost, American support for Afro-Asian independence even in Algeria, adoption of a realistic China policy "in our own national interest," and American initiative in disarmament negotiations. As a final proposal, Finletter urged a complete disarmament plan "safeguarded at all stages...
Then George Allen went beyond the expected, polite tributes as he moved to the delicate subject of Algeria (De Gaulle was angered by U.S. abstention on the Algerian question in the U.N. last winter). "We recognize that France faces a problem of greater difficulty and complexity than that which burdens any other free nation," he said. "We welcomed the Constantine Plan* as a major step forward. We welcomed your affirmation of the reality of an 'Algerian personality,' " adding, "We sincerely hope that an equitable and liberal solution-one that will maintain French ties to Algeria -will be found...
Though Allen insisted afterwards (as diplomats will) that he had said nothing new, and that the U.S. had long backed French efforts for a liberal solution in Algeria, the Parisian press bannered his words across their front pages and took them as an augury of U.S. support in the next Algeria debate in the U.N. come September...
...Proposed by De Gaulle last October, to put $4.8 billion of investment capital into Algeria by 1964, providing new housing for a million people and expanded schooling to cover two-thirds of school-age children...
...severe problem posed by La Gangrène is that, although De Gaulle has succeeded in curbing army excesses in Algeria, French police methods at home in Metropolitan France are still a law unto themselves. In L'Express, Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Francois Mauriac wrote: "De Gaulle, Debré, Michelet are horrified by the idea of torture, as were the Socialists, Radicals and M.R.P.s of the Fourth Republic. But governments pass. The police remain, and governments all have this in common: they cannot do without the police and are scared of displeasing them...