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...Gaulle's turbulent five-day visit, two things were becoming clearer. As a hope and a plan, Algérie Française was dead. The European extremists, whose mob violence overthrew the Fourth Republic, had proved paper tigers. And in the face of the mass Moslem hostility displayed last week, not even the most misguided colon could continue the fiction that the silent Moslems (who are nine-tenths of the population) secretly longed to become Frenchmen and make Algeria an integral part of France...
Second fact was that De Gaulle's proposal of an "Algerian Algeria" linked to France had neither appeased nor diverted the Moslems in their drive for independence. By liberalizing voting laws and by massive social reform, De Gaulle had hoped to win over the vast noncombatant Moslem majority, separate them from the F.L.N. rebels, eventually produce a new moderate leadership that would negotiate a new relationship with France as between friends. That hope dwindled when the F.L.N. flags bloomed on every minaret, when the shouts of the demonstrators in Algiers and Oran, in Bone and Constantine, changed from "Vive...
...visitors are all members of UGEMA, the General Union of Moslem Algerian Students, an organization which actively supports the Algerian government in exile...
Your Algeria. The tumultuous weather followed De Gaulle on his helicopter flight across western Algeria to the ancient Moslem city of Tlemcen, as recently as last year a fanatic stronghold of the F.L.N. rebels. Landing in a hailstorm, De Gaulle received a wildly enthusiastic reception from the city's overwhelmingly Moslem population...
Speaking to a group of Moslem municipal councilors and mayors, De Gaulle said, "I am glad to be in your great country," and went on: "Your future is in your hands. Algeria is yours, all of you without exception. Since the Moslem community is by far the most numerous, I say it is up to you to show your sense of responsibility, your worth, your importance. In truth, it is a new life which Algeria is about to begin in liberty, equality and fraternity...