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...dwindled to as few as one-third of its 99 members. The delegation from France never appeared at all, since Charles de Gaulle had ordered a U.N. boycott. Presumably to underscore French indifference, word was passed that none of the French delegates even planned to listen to the session on radio. The biggest blow for President Charles de Gaulle came when all eleven African states of the normally pro-French Brazzaville group decided to vote against France...
...proof were needed, the strike was convincing testimony that it was time to resume negotiations with the F.L.N. In the four-week interval since the Evian talks were broken off. De Gaulle has given up talk of a French-run plebiscite, which was at best a wistful hope that pro-French Moslems might vote for some alternative to the F.L.N. He has become convinced, as Coup de Frejac had blurted, that support for the F.L.N. is total, and that the F.L.N. will rule the new Algeria. The only question is: On what terms...
...peace talks with Algerian nationalists fail, De Gaulle went on, he will partition Algeria, regrouping French Algerians and pro-French Moslems in the coastal cities. For both sides, the implications of partition were staggering. Even in Algiers, Moslems outnumber Europeans 400,000 to 300,000, and the city Moslems have been passionately dedicated to the F.L.N. cause. Presumably they would have to be evacuated to the Moslem area at the cost of hopelessly dislocating the industrial and commercial life of the city. The probable French area contains 74% of the country's industries, does 77% of its business...
...violence was not all on one side. Moslem terrorists in Oran raped a French girl and cut her escort's throat. They killed a French prison guard, a Jewish taxi driver, a Moslem with pro-French sympathies, and tossed a grenade in a Constantine bar, wounding 16. F.L.N. men raided a factory and killed four Europeans, broke in on a wedding and mowed down four guests...
...went into opposition. Socialists, trade unions and students railed against unemployment, grinding poverty, and the government's inability to provide decent housing in place of the fetid bidonvilles (shanty towns) surrounding Rabat, Casablanca and Port Lyautey. Hassan was accused of using the army for strike breaking, of being pro-French and pro...