"I'm exhausted!" cried Premier Edgar Faure. It was 4 a.m., and intermittently for three days and continuously for the last 14 hours, France's National Assembly had been drearily debating Faure's policy for Algeria. The policy had to be the "middle course of integration," said Faure. "Assimilation" was impracticable; "secession" was unacceptable. Faure proposed a program of land reforms, stepped-up investments and increased political liberties, including "free, democratic elections" (a suggestion that, heretofore, elections had been neither).
Faure could read little but hostility in the faces confronting him. The Socialists, who a few days before had saved him by approving his Moroccan...
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