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...same kind of rigidity in colonial affairs has affected economic progress before, and may possibly wreck it eventually. After the Korean War, when the U.S. satisfied itself with a stalemate armistice, Georges Bidault insisted on victory in Indochina. "Resistance," or"immobilisme" was again the theme in dealings with Morocco and Tunisia, a policy which Aron explains by recalling French fears of another Munich or Vichy. The same fears have prevented the transfer of the rest of the empire, Algeria, into nationalist hands...
...have all along, claimed they were winning. They say that there are only 7,600 F.L.N. regulars in Algeria today, compared with 16,000 two years ago. But they admit that some 18,000 rebels are in battle readiness across the Tunisian border, and another 8,000 encamped in Morocco...
...Khrushchev hurried to get back on the revolutionary bandwagon, told the Algerians that only power counts, and proposed a two-stage assistance program. The first would be shipment of non-military supplies-which, to avoid provoking a general conflict, would be landed at allegedly neutral ports in Tunisia and Morocco. Last week the Soviet freighter Fatezh arrived at Tunis with a cargo of machine tools, tractors, cars, clothes and food for the rebels. The second phase is scheduled to begin when the F.L.N. can take, and hold, a sliver of Algerian territory from the French. Then the Soviet Union will...
Troubled Friends. Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba and Morocco's King Mohammed V are men steeped in French culture, and longtime friends of the West. Both have tried to serve as peacemakers between the F.L.N. and France, and this month Bourguiba desperately sent his son to Paris to make a personal appeal to De Gaulle. Young Bourguiba's message was that France must make concessions or the F.L.N. would turn to the Communists, dragging Tunisia with it. Young Bourguiba was not even allowed to talk to De Gaulle, and his father angrily recalled him to Tunis. Last...
King Mohammed, who claims the rocky Mauritania desert south of Morocco as his own, was annoyed last week because France agreed to give Mauritania its independence. Mohammed promptly ordered the closing of two French consulates near the Algerian border. The announced reason was the recent French bombardment of two Moroccan villages. A more compelling, if unstated, reason was that these consular districts enabled the French to keep tabs on the movement of F.L.N. men and arms across the border...