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...beaten in Indo-China at Dien-bienphu. Rather, by tenacity, courage and discipline, the F.L.N. finally forced the French to give up the embattled country. For the future, this military stand-off may hold more hope and less bitterness than a clear-cut victory. The "sad peace" concluded at Evian may yet turn into the kind of "association" that De Gaulle had earlier hoped for, and had linked with "the peace of the brave...
Question of Ambition. Why had Bourguiba chosen this moment for his gambit? One guess was that he was trying to impress Algeria's rebel F.L.N.. which last week resumed talks with the French at the Chateau de Lugrin, near Evian. In the five weeks since France broke off the talks, the F.L.N. has increased its prestige enormously and won new popularity among Algerian Moslems. Bourguiba, ambitious to lead a united Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey...
...proof were needed, the strike was convincing testimony that it was time to resume negotiations with the F.L.N. In the four-week interval since the Evian talks were broken off. De Gaulle has given up talk of a French-run plebiscite, which was at best a wistful hope that pro-French Moslems might vote for some alternative to the F.L.N. He has become convinced, as Coup de Frejac had blurted, that support for the F.L.N. is total, and that the F.L.N. will rule the new Algeria. The only question is: On what terms...
Charles de Gaulle picked up a phone and called his chief delegate at Evian-les-Bains, white-haired Louis Joxe. Break off the talks, he ordered-at least for the moment. De Gaulle was frankly fed up. Day after day, week after week, Algeria's rebel F.L.N. delegation had rejected every French proposal. There would be no special guarantees for the rights of Algeria's 1,000,000 Europeans after independence, the rebels insisted. Nor would the French be allowed to hang on to the vast Sahara region and its oil; the Sahara must become an integral part...
Relaying the boss's orders to the startled F.L.N. contingent across the table in Evian's Hotel du Pare, Joxe was polite but firm. "I have given our position," he said. "I have nothing to add. I suggest, in the present state of our talks, a suspension of our meetings and an interval for reflection...