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Said he: "Some may regret that routine, fear and prejudices have, in the past, hindered assimilation of the Moslems-supposing that were possible." But the fact that "the Moslem- form eight-ninths of the population, and that this percentage is constantly increasing in their favor," led De Gaulle to the conclusion that "the Algeria of tomorrow, then, will be Algerian. The Algerians will conduct their own affairs, and it will be up to them alone to found a state with its own government, its own institution and its own laws...
...heady new plan, the work of a Carnegie-financed commission headed by Sir Eric Ashby, Master of Clare College, Cambridge University. The commission set out to imagine "Nigeria in 1980, a nation of some 50 million people, a voice to be listened to in the Christian and the Moslem worlds, a nation that is taking its place in a technological civilization." The commission urged Nigeria to boost sharply teacher and technical training, to triple secondary-school enrollment, and create two new universities with a total of at least 7,500 students by 1970. Cost: about $135 million. One commission member...
...countryside, went pale with fury at the news of the riots. To an aide he snapped: "All those who are responsible-I will break them!" Cutting short his tour by a day. De Gaulle went to Bone to emplane for Paris. Gunfire accompanied his take-off as European and Moslem crowds angrily shouted their rival slogans. Foreign Legion paratroops, long the darlings of the European extremists, tried to separate the demonstrators. The European rioters refused to disperse. For the first time in Algerian history, French troops opened fire on a European crowd, killing three and wounding...
Defiant Orphans. In Algiers and Oran and Bóne, 127 Moslems died and hundreds more were wounded. European gangs joined in the hunt and dropped stray Moslems with pistols and iron bars. But still the green-and-white flags waved, and the Moslem crowds, scattered by police charges, re-formed as soon as the police withdrew. From rooftops and windows, Moslem women cheered on their men with high-pitched cries of "Yu! Yu! Yu!" One woman shouted at a group of paratroops: "Cowards! You were thrown out of Indo-China, you were thrown out of Tunisia, you were thrown...
...Europeans were stunned. Ever since 1957, when paratroops brutally suppressed the F.L.N. terrorists in the cities, Moslem city dwellers have practiced attentisme, a zombielike acceptance of every indignity just to stay alive. The advocates of a French Algeria argued that the casbah really wanted association with France but was intimidated into silence for fear of the F.L.N. Attentisme (wait-and-see-ism) virtually disappeared last week in the explosive espousal of the F.L.N. The extremist Front de l'Algérie Française had claimed the support of 500,000 Moslems-if they ever existed, they have...