Before the United Nations Political Committee in New York City last week, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau made the most vigorous and persuasive statement yet heard of the case for French rule in Algeria. Excerpts:
WHAT is occurring in Algeria is not a national uprising against foreign oppression, but a political enterprise undertaken by a minority wedded to the well-known methods of terrorism and subversive war. It would have foundered long before this had it not received help from certain countries which supply it with arms, money, directives and even bases of operations....
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