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...Ferhat Abbas, if he came to Paris, would be free to move about, whether he could be sure of treating with President de Gaulle personally, whether F.L.N. negotiators could confer with Ben Bella, the F.L.N. leader whom the French kidnaped four years ago on a flight between Morocco and Tunisia. Moris relayed each question to Premier Michel Debre, who in turn relayed it to De Gaulle. The answers: De Gaulle would certainly not see Ferhat Abbas until a cease-fire had been signed. No contact with Ben Bella would be permitted. As for Ferhat Abbas' freedom of movement...
...Gaulle's Delegate-General for Algeria, Paul Delouvrier, obviously preparing Algerian European settlers for other possibilities, broadcast last week that "it would be a mistake to think . . . the discussions will be solely military. The very fact that the combatants are installed on the territory of other countries [Tunisia and Morocco] leads to the presumption that things will go beyond the simply military stage...
Militarily, the F.L.N. rebels were at a low ebb. F.L.N. terrorism, which as late as 1957 killed scores of Algerian civilians every week, is now confined to occasional and increasingly infrequent bombings. Some 20,000 well-equipped F.L.N. fighters stationed in Tunisia still keep 35,000 French troops tied up along the electrified Morice Line, but rebel breakthrough attempts are costly and seldom successful. Inside Algeria, rebel units that in early 1958 were big enough to fight pitched battles with crack French outfits are now reduced to 30 or 40 men apiece, and religiously flee all contact with French troops...
Guinea and newly independent Cameroon brawled openly. Rising to attack the Mali Federation-Libya, Tunisia and Morocco-for permitting foreign bases on their soil, Guinea's Foreign Affairs Chief Abdoulaye Diallo also lit into Cameroon for permitting French troops to stay. Cameroon Delegate Charles Okala promptly pointed out that the Guinea police state had accepted arms from Czechoslovakia, hinting at the well-known fact that some of these weapons ended up in the hands of dissident Cameroon tribes men. "If there are troops in Cameroon, whose fault is it?" Okala demanded. "We have all tried...
...squadrons of Communist MIGs would have alarmed many of their foreign sympathizers, lost them much of the neutral and Western support they have managed to win.) Last week, as F.I.N. leaders gathered at the Tunis villa of "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, emissaries from the pro-rebel governments of Morocco and Tunisia turned up to urge them to fly to Paris and negotiate with De'Gaulle. The rebels, tattered and restless, gave word that they would seriously consider...