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Oracle in Paris. As the realization that there was a majority against Bourgès-Maunoury but no majority for anyone else dawned on France, it became conceivable that what had begun as a crise grave* might end as a crise de régime, i.e., the ultimate crisis of the Fourth Republic, which would force a fundamental change in its structure...
...been called into special session by Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury. Confronting France was another U.N. debate on Algeria-likely to end in formal censure of France unless it produced some alternative to bloody repression. Four months ago when he took office as the youngest Premier of the century (and 23rd since the war), Bourgès-Maunoury conceded that "force alone" could not hold Algeria. Force alone would also not satisfy the Socialists and the Catholic M.R.P., whose support his minority government needs to survive. Over violent objections from his own Cabinet, Radical Socialist Bourgès-Maunoury...
...Premier desperately summoned the chiefs of all France's "democratic" parties (but not the Communists or the extreme right Poujadists) to a round-table conference to achieve an "expression of large national will." After two days of hard bargaining for the support of Soustelle and the conservative Independents, Bourgès-Maunoury agreed that the federal council would not be established in Algeria until 18 months after the cessation of rebellion in all parts of the country-which might well mean never. In addition, he agreed to drop from the law any mention of future transfer to the federal...
Jeered at for his indifferent oratory, sometimes shouted down by the Deputies, Bourgès-Maunoury retreated again. Unhappily he agreed that suffrage in Algeria should continue to be weighted in favor of Europeans. At week's end, declaring that "it is impossible for me to make further concessions," the weary Premier shut off debate and demanded a vote of confidence on the loi-cadre this week. "Fascist!" cried the Poujadists. "It takes one to tell one," rejoined Bourgès-Maunoury...
...cadre had already been rejected out of hand by the Algerian National Liberation Movement, but it might have had an effect on other war-weary Algerian Moslems. Now, even should it pass and Bourgès-Maunoury remain in office, the loi-cadre no longer stood as a shadowy promise of a political solution to the rebellion. Instead, it is a document which says that France intends to hang on in Algeria, whatever the rest of the world says...