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...CRIMSON on Saturday broke one of the oldest and strongest traditions of the University by printing an account of a lecture given in academic privacy. This lecture, given by Professor Aron on Algeria, was arranged as part of the work of Government 195, and its strictly academic character was explained to those who attended. Your reporter evidently came late, for I cannot believe that his offense was intentional. Unfortunately his story, though in itself a better-than-average newspaper account of a lecture, is a demonstration of the importance of the rule against such reporting...
...course the FLN (National Liberation Front) will not cease fire without securing the conditions of self-determination," Aron told a Sever Hall . He pointed out that de Gaulle's proposal for "self-determination" was "just a better word for election." An election held under the French army will not be free, Aron asserted, "but if the French army goes away, the FLN comes in, and it will not be free either...
...Aron, a visiting research professor of Government, discounted suggestions that the UN could supervise an election in Algeria. "As events in the Congo have shown, the UN army is not a fighting army, and it could not protect against...
Noted for his commentary on the problem of disarmament in the face of fear, Aron stated the basic political difference over Algeria this way: "De Gaulle's point is that he cannot negotiate with the FLN as the free Algerian government, for that would recognize Algerian independence. But the FLN cannot stop fighting, because that is their trump card...
When de Gaulle came to power, Aron said, "he was a representative of everything to everybody." His real view today is that he is reconciled with the idea of a new Algerian state, Aron maintained. "And he is far too clever to believe that he can build a new Algeria without the nationalists who fought...