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Meeting in Melun, 30 miles southeast of Paris, the F.L.N.'s Ahmed Boumendjel spent five days in talks with Roger Moris, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Algeria. The exchanges were so frosty that the Algerians complained of "a Panmunjom atmosphere." Boumendjel asked whether F.L.N. "Premier" Ferhat...
As rebel leaders met to discuss the second round, there was talk in Tunis that the Algerians might send a ministerial delegation to Paris, but Premier Abbas might not be in it. "This is a lull, not a break," said an Algerian rebel at week's end.
For days, Algeria's rebels had backed and filled over Charles de Gaulle's renewed and more generous offer of peace negotiations (TIME, June 27). At first they refused to fly in an official French plane. Then, taking passage in a Tunis Air DC-4, the rebels finally...
Pressure from Allies. But the real decision was up to the rebels. Last month an F.I.N. rebel delegation returned from Communist China without the arms and planes that they had sought to carry on the fight. (The failure might have served them better than success, for the spectacle of the...
Never was this policy more helpful than in the postwar days of nationalistic upheaval. When Indonesia took out after the Dutch, the Group replaced its Dutchmen on the scene with British and Indonesians. When the British were unpopular in Egypt after Suez. Shell replaced them with Dutch. The British were...