FRANCE: A Vague-Shaped Mouse

At the beginning of 1957. the U.N. General Assembly called for a "peaceful, democratic and just solution" for the "situation" in Algeria, and without condemning anyone, gave the French and the Algerian nationalists time to work things out. Last week, on the eve of another Assembly meeting, the French brought forth a draft version of their long-promised "framework law" to settle Algeria's future. Totally unacceptable, the Arabs called it, and in fact the law was something of a mouseĀ—small, grey, and of indeterminate shape. But so deep run the divisions within Premier...

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