Word: eurafrica
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...opposition." Aron hopes that facism (or communism) will not have the chance to come to executive power under a constitution written for de Gaulle alone. He suggests "two courses still open": alliance with the Common Market Six to undertake a coalition great power's "task of economic development with Eurafrica as a final result," or, if France insists on "freedom of action in Africa, she can play an honorable part, but not that of a great power, in the Atlantic Alliance and world affairs...
...Eurafrica. From the very beginning of the Algerian debate last week in the U.N. General Assembly's Political Committee, France showed that it was doing its best to link the vocation and the friendship. In contrast to 1955, when France boycotted a discussion of Algeria, its representative (largely to win U.S. backing) not only agreed to discuss the rebellion but even to inform the U.N. of France's plans for restoring peace in Algeria. In defensive tones, Christian Pineau outlined Mollet's Algerian program: first an unconditional ceasefire, next free elections and finally negotiation of Algeria...
Pineau's vision of Eurafrica did nothing to dampen the perfervid anticolonialism of the Arab-Asian countries. "The reputation of France at the present time," growled Syria's Delegate Farid Zeineddine, "is at its lowest ebb." Then, accusing the French of everything from cowardice to genocide, 18 Arab-Asian nations proposed just what France most dreaded: a resolution demanding that the people of Algeria be granted "their fundamental right of self-determination...
Less than 48 hours before Christian Pineau outlined his bold "Eurafrica" scheme to the U.N., the French National Assembly hastily supplied him with a timely token of France's good intentions in Africa. In a predawn ballot that suggested that the lessons of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria had finally penetrated the French consciousness, the Deputies voted to give a limited degree of self-rule to the island of Madagascar and twelve provinces of "Black Africa...
...newspaper-reading Frenchman could guess that the Abetz discussions were aimed at nothing less than total French "collaboration" in Germany's building of the "Eurafrica" of the future-possibly including the assistance of the French Navy and General Maxime Weygand's North African Army, now said to number as many as 300,000 men. Furthermore, a certain sympathy in Vichy for Germany's grandiose future schemes seemed far from unlikely. Said the Vichy-inspired Temps last week: "When one probes to the bottom of things it is evident that the present crisis reduces itself to the opposition...
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