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Chief proponent of the plan is Tunisia's Premier Habib Bourguiba. On his recent visit to Washington Bourguiba reportedly urged President Eisenhower to persuade France to give Algeria complete independence. In return, Arab leaders in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco would form a Maghreb federation with some kind of link with France. Spain, because of its residual interest in Spanish Morocco, would also be invited to join the grouping, and so would Libya...
Natural Nations. French-educated Bourguiba makes no secret of his distaste for Nasser's setting himself up as leader of the Algerians' fight for freedom. Despite public avowals of Arab solidarity, Arab leaders in French North Africa privately look down on the Arabs of the Middle East, consider themselves far more advanced both culturally and economically...
...cards immediately, Maghreb is more than a distant dream. One of the wisest of Arab leaders recently remarked that if Arab borders had been drawn sensibly and in the Arab interest rather than where Europeans had drawn them, rewarding this prince and that sheik, there would be four natural Arab nations: 1) Maghreb in North Africa, 2) the land of the Nile Valley, 3) Arabia Deserta, including not only Saudi Arabia but Yemen and all the little trucial sheikdoms, 4) the Fertile Crescent, stretching from the Mediterranean at Lebanon to the Persian Gulf, and including Syria and Iraq...
...kill and counter-kill began when a nationalist assassin walked into the dining room of the Franco-Moslem club in downtown Algiers on Christmas Day, shot and seriously wounded Mohammed Ait Ali, council president of the Algiers department, and one of the few remaining Arab politicians who dare to show sympathy for the French. Three days later, in broad daylight on Algiers' busy and fashionable Rue Michelet, a nationalist gunman killed 74-year-old Amédée Froger, president of the Federation of Algerian Mayors and a militant leader of the French colons...
Algeria's Minister Resident Robert Lacoste hurried back to Paris for consultations. His policy of reform-dissolving the old French-dominated municipal councils with a view to new elections-had proved a flop. No Arab was willing to present himself as a candidate, and the colons viewed any concession as a threat. Chief French worry was that the new terrorism might arouse the colons to savage retaliation before the U.N. debate. Said Lacoste: "Keeping cool is becoming an act of heroism...