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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...
Murdering Children. De Gaulle's high commissioner in Algeria, Christian Fouchet, still hesitated to use the Moslem "force locale" to patrol European-populated cities (except for one battalion in Oran) for fear of worsening the racial strife. But from his fortified headquarters at Le Rocher Noir, he clamped a tighter curfew on Algiers, promised new tough measures, and hinted that he would ship home all French officials sabotaging the Algerian administration by go-slow tactics...
Ailleret raced to Le Rocher Noir, the coastal fortress that houses the French and Provisional Algerian administrations, confirmed Salan's capture to newly appointed High Commissioner Christian Fouchet. As Fouchet called Charles de Gaulle to break the news, a military transport roared off the Reghaia's airstrip, taking the old soldier for the last time from the country for which Raoul Salan, after 44 years of fighting France's enemies, had himself become an enemy of France. Though he is already under sentence of death in absentia, by French law Salan must stand trial. Like ex-General...
Rightly or wrongly, the transplanted whites from Algeria are identified with the plastic bombings and brutal murders of the S.A.O. The average Frenchman also dislikes them on personal grounds. The Algerian accent, which combines a throaty Arab intonation with a nasal drawl, falls unpleasantly on French ears. The pieds-noirs are considered pushy, noisy, boastful and vulgar. A Nice restaurateur says: "You cannot spend ten minutes with them before the subject of their sexual prowess comes up. Their language and gestures are so raw that it's not surprising that no one, from high society to workers, invites pieds...
Cried one pied-noir: "We're foreigners in France. We're beggars in neckties." A penniless truck driver from Algiers, who sleeps in a Roman Catholic mission and exists on one meal a day, warns: "Things will explode if the government doesn't do something for us fast...