Foreign News: DE GAULLE'S APPEAL TO THE REBELS

Excerpts from Premier de Gaulle's press conference invitation to the Algiers rebels:

THE organization you refer to [the Algerian rebel F.L.N.] started the fight on its own initiative. I leave the future to determine what this struggle will have served, but in any case now it serves nothing. Surely they can, if they want to, continue outrages, set up ambushes on the roads, hurl grenades in marketplaces, sneak into villages at night to kill a few unfortunate people. They can hide in mountain caves, go in groups from djebel to djebel and hide arms in rock crevices to use when the opportunity...

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