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...Outsiders. Though both Moroccan and Tunisian delegates summoned them separately to conferences, the Algerians were invited to none of the official banquets or meetings. They waited outside the palace in a car for the final communiqué. When it was ready, Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay Hassan himself went out to hand it to them before it was distributed to the press. The communiqué announced that Bourguiba and the King, scheduled to fly to the U.S. this week to visit President Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), had agreed to put their good offices at the "disposal of France...
...outside the cities, the FLN boasted an organized strength of 100,000 men, and a French army officer conceded FLN was "better armed and better trained than ever before." The reality, as always, was hard to sort out from the claims. Last week the FLN put out a communiqué claiming its troops had killed 500 French soldiers, knocked out a dozen tanks and armored cars in ten days. Snorted a French journalist: "This is intolerable. They lie even more than...
...Washington conference went far beyond even these specifics. Said the postconference communiqué: "We recognize that our collective security efforts must be supported by cooperative economic action.* The present offers a challenging opportunity for improvement of trading conditions and the expansion of trade throughout the free world." In sum, the conference proposed taking the fullest advantage of an all-important fact: "The free nations possess vast assets, both material and moral. These, in the aggregate, are far greater than those of the Communist world...
...final form, the Washington conference communiqué produced an eloquent restatement of the principles that guided it: "Despotisms have often been able to produce spectacular monuments. But the price has been heavy. For all peoples yearn for intellectual and economic freedom, the more so if from their bondage they see others manifest the glory of freedom. Even despots are forced to permit freedom to grow by an evolutionary process, or in time there will be violent revolution...
...kind of parting gesture Arabs make so much of, Saud shook hands with President Kuwatly, then before getting into his plane went out of his way to seek out and shake hands with U.S. Embassy Chargé d'Affairés Robert Strong. There was no joint communiqué on parting, and not a word from Saud endorsing "positive neutrality...