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Where Now? In their panicky fear of abandonment, Europeans searched for a way out and looked nervously to recently independent Tunisia and Morocco for a hint of their fate. The facts were sobering. In Tunisia, only 60,000 Frenchmen remain of the 180,000 who lived there on independence day five years ago. More than 100,000 of the 350,000 French who resided in Morocco have left. Most have returned to France. But more than half of the million Europeans in Algeria are of Spanish, Italian and Corsican descent, have no family or economic links with France, and work...
...Most Frenchmen took that as a clear warning: as he had done once before in 1946, when displeased with Frenchmen, President Charles de Gaulle might simply resign his high position and go quietly back home to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. What then? Not the least of the anomalies of present-day France is that under the constitution of the Fifth Republic. De Gaulle's place would be taken by the president of the French Senate: Gaston Monnerville, a 64-year-old Negro from French Guiana...
...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...
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...