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...visit with his neutralist pal, Marshal Tito, Algeria's President Ahmed ben Bella last week set off for home. By rights, Ben Bella should have flown 1,060 miles southwest to Algiers. Instead, his Russian-piloted Ilyushin-18 plane headed north and touched down at France's Melun air port, 26 miles from Paris. There, a helicopter was waiting to hustle Ben Bella to the Chateau de Champs for a conference with Charles de Gaulle...
...provisional" Premier, Ferhat Abbas, has long had an apartment. Thus the talks can take place, as pride demands, in France, but the F.L.N. delegation can live on Swiss territory, free of the French police surveillance that made life miserable for them at last year's abortive talks in Melun...
...Tunisian President in the interest of Algerian peace. Bourguiba picked as his emissary Information Minister Mohammed Masmoudi, who called on De Gaulle at the Elysée palace, told him that the F.L.N. leaders still smarted from memories of last June's talks with French representatives at Melun, where they had been virtually treated like prisoners. "Melun?" snapped De Gaulle. "There wasn't a Melun." Things would be different this time. "Nine-tenths of Algeria's Moslems are nationalists," said De Gaulle flatly. "They have created a nation that previously did not exist. Now they must build...
...should be." The "provisional" Premier of the Algerian Republic, Ferhat Abbas, and his F.L.N. Foreign Minister, Belkacem Krim, cut short their tour of Southeast Asia to rush back to Tunis for discussions with Bourguiba's man, Masmoudi. Burly Ahmed Boumendjel, who had headed the F.L.N. delegation to the Melun fiasco, flew from Tunis to Switzerland, was reportedly in direct touch with a De Gaulle representative at the French embassy in Bern...
...cities of Algiers, Oran and Bone shouting their support of the F.L.N. rebels, De Gaulle cried, "Yes, we are proposing peace! We are ready at any time to receive the delegates of the people who are fighting us." In the talks with the F.L.N. rebels, which collapsed at Melun last summer, De Gaulle had insisted on discussing only the conditions of a ceasefire, and the rebels were not interested. Now he was ready to talk, "especially with the leaders of the rebellion," about "all the conditions under which the rights of self-determination can be exercised openly." The question...