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...consistent policy than it has elsewhere. When Socialist Guy Mollet became Premier in 1956, he appointed as Minister of Overseas Territories the far-sighted mayor of Marseilles, Gaston Defferre. While his colleagues busied themselves with a disastrous Algerian policy that eventually led to rebellion, Defferre drafted a really effective loi-cadre (skeleton law) for French West Africa. Though the chief executive of each territory was to be a Paris-appointed premier, responsible for defense and foreign relations, the domestic power was placed in the hands of elected assemblies, which choose their own cabinet ministers to tax and run each country...
...R.D.A. is a 36-year-old labor leader named Sékou Touré, now the vice premier of Guinea. A onetime Marxist and incorrigible troublemaker for France, he is a ruthless man who used to burn the houses of his enemies, and looks upon the loi-cadre as only one step toward autonomy. But the French regard him benignly as one of the ablest administrators in the whole territory. "I am no socialist," says he, "and neither are my colleagues. We have studied the principles of socialism, Communism, the M.R.P., the European Unionists, and we have adopted principles which...
...Algerian war. But while Monnet talked in Washington, Gaillard pulled through the French Parliament a measure which brightened hopes that some compromise, may yet be reached. After one fallen Premier and eight months of debate, both Houses gave final approval to a loi-cadre for Algeria setting up the framework of limited home rule by regional assemblies, and establishing voting equality for Moslem and French (TIME...
...Vote. Gaillard's loi-cadre reaffirms that Algeria, land of 1,000,000 Europeans and 8,700,000 Moslems, is "an integral part of the French Republic." It provides for six territorial assemblies, but requires that each assembly share its powers with appointive "Councils of Communities," whose members will be named by a French governor on the basis of a fifty-fifty split between French and Moslems. A new electoral law abolished the old system, which weighted voting in favor of "non-Moslems" (French), and replaced it with universal suffrage. This was qualified by a system of proportional representation...
...define what it has called the "Algerian personality,'' the government has deemed it necessary to undertake, without delay, the application of a program in its loi-cadre. It permits of an evolution, in liberty and respect for human dignity, of institutions which undoubtedly do not embody all virtues, but make possible without further delay the promotion of a new elite in whose hands will be placed the future of the country...