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What was remarkable in Algiers last week was the absence of gunfire. Contrary to predictions, the trial of Raoul Salan, in which the S.A.O. leader's life had been spared, did not incite his followers to greater violence. For several days not a single Moslem was shot down in the streets by S.A.O. terrorists. The mortars that usually lobbed shells into the Casbah were silent. No booby-trapped autos exploded in the midst of Moslem crowds. Instead, there was the crackling of flames as the S.A.O. put to the torch the Europeans' own schools, public buildings and farms...
...government. Officially, the F.L.N. and the S.A.O. denied they were speaking to each other. But at the local level there were increasing contacts between the two communities. At week's end, in the Algiers suburb of Belcourt, 200 Europeans filed into a movie theater under the protection of Moslem militants to ask questions of an F.L.N. captain about their future under Moslem rule. When the meeting ended, with only a single dissent, the Europeans voted a motion of confidence "in the Algeria of tomorrow...
With full independence for a Moslem-run Algeria only weeks away, the country's million Europeans are deservedly fearful of what the future may bring. The daily slaughter of Moslem men. women and children by ruthless S.A.O. gunmen continues; so far, the Moslems have not massively retaliated. But after the July 1 referendum, which is certain to be won by Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems, a bloodbath is feared. Said a refugee: "We heard reports that on the day after referendum, Moslems will sweep into the European parts of Algiers and kill everyone." So great...
...joint labor union communique called the verdict "scandalous," and the influential Paris newspaper Le Monde described it as "a trial for nothing, climaxing a war for nothing." In Algeria, the Moslem F.L.N. was enraged, and asserted that in the light of the verdict S.A.O. gunmen will conclude that they have nothing to fear from French justice. Apparently just as furious, De Gaulle met with his Cabinet. Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe saw the verdict as a "blow at the morale of the forces of order, particularly the gendarmerie," which has done most of the fighting against the S.A.O. De Gaulle...
Last week the dukun's stock as a prophet rose even higher with Sukarno. At a prayer meeting in the presidential palace grounds, a Moslem fanatic suddenly rose from the assembled crowd, shouted "Allah is great!", and produced a pistol (steel, of course). He blazed away at the kneeling Sukarno, missed him, but wounded five persons around him. The Indonesians tried to implicate the Dutch in this fifth attempt on Sukarno's life in five years by declaring that the assassin's pistol was "Dutch made." But the ploy was as trans parent as the halfhearted invasion...