For two days, Algiers' Moslems watched silently as European mobs shouted for "Algérie Française" and tangled with security forces. Then, in their frustrated rage, the Europeans went too far. Squads of toughs plunged into the Moslem quarters. They beat up passers-by and forced shopkeepers to join the general strike ordered by the extremist Front de l'Algérie Française.
Flagged Spires. Suddenly, the Moslems' long restraint snapped. Screaming like men who have been too long silent, Moslem mobs flooded the narrow lanes of the casbah. From under thin mattresses and floor boards came hundreds of...