Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of three radio and TV appeals for a "frank and massive" yes in the Jan. 8 referendum to his plan to give self-determination to Algeria, De Gaulle warned the Europeans of Algeria that their dream of transforming Algeria into a province of France and Moslems into proper Frenchmen was dead...
Running Time. De Gaulle's solution may not suit everybody, but to most Frenchmen it seems to be the only one with a chance of success. At the United Nations, in tacit recognition of De Gaulle's obvious good intentions, France's former colonies in Africa and its Western allies united to defeat the demand for an Algerian referendum on self-determination held under U.N. auspices...
...extremists, whose mob violence overthrew the Fourth Republic, had proved paper tigers. And in the face of the mass Moslem hostility displayed last week, not even the most misguided colon could continue the fiction that the silent Moslems (who are nine-tenths of the population) secretly longed to become Frenchmen and make Algeria an integral part of France...
Despite the tension in Algeria, the nationwide referendum date De Gaulle has set for January 8 remains unchanged: Frenchmen would be called upon to vote oui or non to his policies. De Gaulle brusquely showed he would not tolerate extremist European defiance in Algiers, incidentally making clear that he blamed the Europeans, not the Moslems, for instigating the riots. Forty civil servants in Algeria, who had quit work in answer to the strike call of the extremist Front de l' Algérie Française, were sacked from their jobs and the Front itself ordered dissolved. The same...
President Charles de Gaulle's talk of an "Algerian republic" angered Algeria's European extremists, distressed many Frenchmen and left the Moslem rebels unimpressed. But it made one major convert: Habib Bourguiba, 57, President of Tunisia, who in a fit of exasperation last October welcomed Communist aid to the F.L.N. rebels. Last week Bourguiba was hailing De Gaulle's proposal as a "big step forward" and using his impressive behind-the-scenes talents to persuade...