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...Bourgès-Maunoury conceded that "force alone" could not hold Algeria. Force alone would also not satisfy the Socialists and the Catholic M.R.P., whose support his minority government needs to survive. Over violent objections from his own Cabinet, Radical Socialist Bourgès-Maunoury hammered out a loi-cadre (skeleton law) for Algeria that by the current standards of French opinion was almost generous. It would divide Algeria into half a dozen semi-autonomous regions in which Moslems would for the first time have equal voting rights with Algerian Frenchmen. After two years the regional assemblies were...
Sowing the Seeds. As French Deputies trouped back from their holidays, they had clearly heard the voice of their constituents: Algeria is French and must remain so. Scarcely had the Assembly reconvened when right-wingers launched an all-out attack on the "federal council" clause of the loi-cadre. This, stormed Gaullist Leader (and onetime Governor General of Algeria) Jacques Soustelle, "sows the seeds of Algeria's eventual legal secession...
Little Rock & Cold Steel. Even with its heart cut out, the French right-wingers still did not like the loi-cadre and, when the final debate began, reneged on their promised support. For one thing, they clearly sensed that they no longer had to worry so much about the U.S. wagging its moral finger at them. "Why should the French have a bad conscience?" demanded Soustelle. "It's not France that must use armed troops to put children into school." Fiery right-wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who was once barred from office for collaborating with...
...Maunoury retreated again. Unhappily he agreed that suffrage in Algeria should continue to be weighted in favor of Europeans. At week's end, declaring that "it is impossible for me to make further concessions," the weary Premier shut off debate and demanded a vote of confidence on the loi-cadre this week. "Fascist!" cried the Poujadists. "It takes one to tell one," rejoined Bourgès-Maunoury...
...loi-cadre had already been rejected out of hand by the Algerian National Liberation Movement, but it might have had an effect on other war-weary Algerian Moslems. Now, even should it pass and Bourgès-Maunoury remain in office, the loi-cadre no longer stood as a shadowy promise of a political solution to the rebellion. Instead, it is a document which says that France intends to hang on in Algeria, whatever the rest of the world says...