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Those were the words, repeated countless times around the world, that greeted the long-delayed truce in Algeria. After seven years, four months and 18 days, the fighting stopped. The war had cost hundreds of thousands of dead, ranging from illiterate Moslem peasants to the blueblooded elite of the French army. On one side stood France, which had carried Western civilization into the desert and, despite vast errors of judgment, had built a country in North Africa that had been part of France for more than a century. On the other side were the poor, scattered Arab tribes of Algeria...
...been settled: a transition period for Algeria, leased bases for the French, guarantees for Europeans. But last-minute stumbling blocks appeared. Among the chief problems was the composition of the Provisional Executive, which is to govern Algeria during the ceasefire; on this, the F.L.N. demanded a twelve-man French-Moslem committee with an F.L.N. nominee as chairman. Another issue: the powers and strength of the Force Locale to police the ceasefire; here the F.L.N. wanted more Moslem members, while Paris wanted a French commander. Compromise finally settled all the issues...
...Algeria, the announcement of the cease-fire seemed little more than a formality. What really matters is the S.A.O. For months, its gunmen have been indiscriminately shooting and bombing Moslems. As the cease-fire drew near last week, the S.A.O. killers concentrated on the relatively few Moslem intellectuals. In Algiers, a carload of S.A.O. terrorists raided the Algerian Social Center and coldbloodedly mowed down six educators-three of them Europeans-including Moslem Author Mouloud Feraoun, a close friend of the late Algerian-born author, Albert (The Plague) Camus. Next, S.A.O. gunmen attacked drugstores, killing seven Moslem pharmacists...
guerrillas are equipped with Red Chinese mortars and antiaircraft guns; they eat jam from Communist Bulgaria; they train Moslem orphans to be carpenters and welders on machines from the Soviet Union...
...survive. Already France has conceded that Algeria may buy wheat at domestic French prices while undertaking, in turn, to continue to buy the Algerian wine surplus. The continuation of French aid to Algeria is expected to run to $700 million a year. In this mutual binding of wounds, the Moslem anger toward France and, indirectly, toward all the West, may prove as transient as did the Allies' anti-German and anti-Japanese feelings after World...