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...Rejection, One Concession. Armed with this evidence that France has complied with last February's U.N. recommendation to work for "a peaceful, democratic and just solution" in Algeria, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau moved to the attack against Arab nationalists in the U.N. Political Committee (see box). He cold-shouldered Morocco and Tunisia as impartial mediators. The FLN levies its own taxes and recruits young men in Morocco's Oudjda province, he pointed out. Tunisia has made barracks available to the Algerians in Tunis and Souk-el-Arba, transports their men and equipment in government military vehicles...
Veto Power? Among Dulles' grittiest pre-Paris problems is France's anger at the U.S. and Britain for sending arms to pro-Western Tunisia a fortnight ago. With French rancor so strong that it threatened to stuff up the atmosphere at the Paris meeting, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Washington last week and talked over with Dulles ways and means of keeping Western arms delivered to Tunisia from getting into the hands of rebels in neighboring Algeria...
Veto Power? Neither Foreign Minister Pineau nor Foreign Minister Von Brentano got half as much attention from the State Department press corps as Democrat Adlai Stevenson, arriving to take part in preparations for the Paris meetings. Dulles greeted Stevenson warmly in the fifth-floor diplomatic reception room, ushered him into his office for a 90-minute discussion, then gave him the office across the hall, normally occupied by Counselor G. Frederick Reinhardt...
...French promptly rejected the offer on the ground that it meant recognition of the rebels. The Algerians retorted that they were interested only in negotiations based on "independence," not sovereignty. But French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau termed the tone of the Rabat offer "moderate," and Bourguiba, in a radio chat with his people, predicted that it would assist the "ripening" of cease-fire sentiment inside France...
...hour of the NATO summit conference approached, the statesmen and diplomats of the West scurried about like ants. Danish Premier Hans Christian Hansen flew into Bonn. German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano conferred in Rome before flying to Washington, hot on the heels of French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau. In London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was loading his briefcase for a quick trip to Paris...