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...they stood on the threshold of independence, Algeria's Moslems could feel like men who had broken through a time barrier. The F.L.N.'s first Premier and grand old man Ferhat Abbas wrote despairingly in 1934: "If I had discovered an Algerian nation I would be a nationalist. Men who die for a patriotic ideal are honored and respected. But I would not die for an Algerian fatherland because such a fatherland does not exist. I cannot find it. I questioned history. I questioned the living and the dead. I searched through the cemeteries. Nobody could speak...
...burly Belkacem Krim. Already approved by the French Cabinet, the agreement needed only the approval of four-fifths of the Revolutionary Council, which could not reject it without also rejecting Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda who, only six months ago, was designated by the Council to replace ill and aging (62) Ferhat Abbas in the task of swiftly bringing the war to a close...
...Algerian-I know this-who does not believe that the Sahara should be a part of Algeria." It was a breathtaking concession which, as his critics grumbled, would probably have produced an armistice long ago, almost certainly would have forestalled the ouster last month of F.L.N. Boss Ferhat Abbas in favor of the more radical Benyoussef Benkhedda...
Still Time. The change is evidence of the increasing self-confidence of the F.L.N. younger generation, who feel that they no longer need the respectable, moderate "front'' of Ferhat Abbas. They resented the fact that when Algeria's Moslems spontaneously demonstrated for independence last December, their rallying cry was "Vive Ferhat Abbas!'' This totally unexpected triumph of the F.L.N.'s "grand old man" alarmed the younger militants, who had installed him as Premier only to gain his fagade of respectability. If Abbas returned to Algiers as head of state, they argued, his personal popularity...
Belatedlv. French officials took a regretful backward look at Ferhat Abbas. Sighed one: "He was a man with whom we could have come to an understanding." France's stiff-necked President Charles de Gaulle may find that he blundered badly in not having dealt with Abbas-while there was still time...