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...showed a willingness to accept the standing mediation offer of Tunisia's Premier Habib Bourguiba and Morocco's moderate Sultan Mohammed V. Quick to understand the significance of the FLN move, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau dispatched young (31) Foreign Affairs Ministry Aide Jean-Yves Goëau-Brissonnière to a trade-union congress in Tunis, ostensibly to act as an "observer," actually to sound out FLN leaders...
...rebels were ready to talk. According to Paris, the young French diplomat met three rebel leaders: Mohammed Yazid, the FLN's representative at the U.N., Abane Ramdane, who reportedly runs the FLN military operation, and Dr. Lamine-Debaghine, FLN political leader. They reportedly assured Goëau-Brissonnière that they did not want the Algerian conflict to be "internationalized" (as may happen when the Algerian problem comes before the U.N. General Assembly in September), knowing that for years to come Algeria must live in some kind of economic and political relationship to France. Goëau-Brissonni...
Mission to Paris. Before long, the talks progressed far beyond Goëau-Brisson nière's competence. He decided to fly back to Paris at once. The FLN leaders also wanted broader consultations, particularly with Leader Mohammed ben Bella, who is in Paris' Sante prison (see below). They took their problem to Premier Bourguiba, who suggested that he send Ben Bella's Tunisian friend and lawyer, Abdel Majid Chaker, to Paris to ask the jailed FLN leader: "What do you think of eventual negotiations with France?" Chaker would bring back an oral response...
Unknown to each other, Observer Goëau-Brissonnière and Lawyer Chaker caught the same Air France plane. At Paris' Orly Airport the French diplomat was greeted with a message that his car was waiting for him. Chaker was stopped by a plainclothesman who flashed papers and said, "Follow me." Interrogated that night, Chaker was charged next morning with "threatening the foreign security of the state." Unaware that a representative of the Paris government had been secretly talking with the FLN, somebody in French intelligence had got wind of Chaker's mission to Ben Bella...
...prepared to give assistance, and experts in Washington stood ready last week to fly to Port-au-Prince. But without the re-establishment of public order, no amount of aid could go very far. Sending the Marines was out of the question in the era of the Good Neighbor, but the U.S. Embassy might call in the Haitian politicians and hammer the desk, then sweeten the harsh words with promises of large-scale aid if they would unite patriotically to save their country...