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...awaited broadcast of the Secret Army Organization came on after its usual theme, a few opening bars of a twist tune. The announcer warned that "the coming week will be primordial, decisive, for us Algerians." He hinted broadly that secret talks were under way between the S.A.O. and the Moslem F.L.N., and promised soon to be able to "definitely tell you whether to stay in this country or to leave...
...S.A.O. made no secret of its demands: 1) recognition as the legitimate representative of the 1,000,000 European population, 2) amnesty for all S.A.O. killers, and 3) enlistment of 12.000 Europeans in the largely Moslem Force Locale, which will keep order after the July 1 referendum results in Algeria's independence. To emphasize that they meant business, S.A.O. terrorists again began bombing and setting fire to public buildings, schools and hospitals. S.A.O. gunmen, continuing to hunt down French army officers loyal to De Gaulle, seriously wounded the French general commanding in western Algeria...
Last Plea. Vice Premier Belkacem Krim of the Moslem F.L.N. flew in from his headquarters in Tunis to confer with members of the Provisional Government at Le Rocher Noir, the administrative center near Algiers. If anyone could talk to the killers and terrorists of the S.A.O. it was Krim, who had last appeared in Algeria in 1957 as a leader of the F.L.N. underground, which was spreading death and destruction among the Europeans. The S.A.O. had sworn never to allow an F.L.N. leader to enter Algeria alive, but the rightist newspaper L'Anrore hailed his presence and the prospect...
...broadcast to the French nation last week. President Charles de Gaulle confidently promised that the Algerian problem "will be thoroughly resolved" by July 1. On that date, he predicted, the Moslem majority will vote for independence in the Algerian referendum and the French army will begin a gradual, three-year withdrawal. Thus France will be freed for a more active role in the world* and, De Gaulle implied, for the task of constitutional reform that would make a strong executive a permanent feature of French life. As for the "last bloody clouds" caused by the terrorism of the Secret Army...
...past two years. Human beings were also in flight: the daily average of European refugees has soared from 3,000 to 8,000. This month alone, an estimated one-fourth of the million Europeans in Algeria will leave for France. They are being replaced by a slow influx of Moslem refugees returning from years of exile in neighboring Tunisia and Morocco with only a few sheep and goats and the ragged clothes on their backs. Most will come home to partially or totally destroyed villages, to weed-grown, untilled fields, and to the frail shelter of army tents...