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...Moslem lawyers, civil servants and professional men who have never hidden their nationalist sympathies are expected to serve. De Gaulle's government concedes that the nomination of Europeans to the executive may be difficult because the vast majority hate and fear the F.L.N., and that "outsiders," i.e., Metropolitan Frenchmen, may have to be brought in. The specific tasks of the Provisional Executive will be: 1) to set up and command a 90,000-member Force Publique that will maintain law and order in Algeria along with the French army, and will consist of Moslem militiamen and conscripts together with...
...nine days, Frenchmen and Algerians coolly kept their distance, even ate in separate rooms. During the last 14-hour session, the two teams finally shared sandwiches at the conference table; when the guerrilla war was over at last, Louis Joxe and every member of his delegation shook hands with the Algerians. Then, with skis still strapped to their cars, each delegation drove off with copies of the 100-page agreement that spelled out Joxe's initial aim: "To enable the men and women of Algeria to build their future together...
...thus appears in an intellectually - charged context; and reading it one is constantly reminded of this fact. For M. Larteguy assumes a great deal of the reader, and will hardly make sense unless one bears in mind the peculiar psychological burden of the Army for a certain group of Frenchmen. (Especially since I'm not sure it makes too much sense no matter what's borne in mind...
...F.L.N. agrees not to publish a white paper on French atrocities or to stage any "Nurnberg Trial" of Frenchmen, either in person or in absentia...
Without once mentioning the S.A.O. by name, De Gaulle made a scathing attack upon it. He poured scorn on "unworthy Frenchmen launched into subversive and criminal activities" who were "exploiting and aggravating the anxiety of a segment of the population of European origin, the nostalgia of certain elements of the army, the rancor and the ambition of several military leaders or available politicians." They would fail, cried De Gaulle, because "the nation itself unanimously scorns and condemns these people, their conspiracies and their attacks...