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Humiliation. Says Aron: "If France had voluntarily accorded in 1954 (in Tunisia and Morocco) what she finally accorded under the pressure of terrorism, she would not be suffering from this intolerable feeling of humiliation." Aron's advice: negotiate with the Algerian rebels, slowly transfer power to the Moslem nationalists, and spend a fraction of the cost of the war repatriating Algeria's Europeans to France. Until recently Aron was as insistent as most Frenchmen that only by holding Algeria could France continue a great power...
...violence and hatred of Algeria flooded over both of its borders, into Tunisia and Morocco...
...Morocco: Better. The situation in Morocco, which once threatened to be as bad (bank deposits were down 37% by the end of the first nine months of independence, an estimated 50,000 French have gone back to France), may be recoverable as a result of a Cultural Convention signed last week between France and Morocco. One of the great fears exercising French settlers in North Africa is that the status of the schools in the independent states will not be recognized in France, thus depriving their children of the right to enter French universities or the French civil service...
...exodus of 100,000 Frenchmen from Morocco and Tunisia is nothing to the problem that will be presented, both to the North Africa they leave and the France they descend on, if the Frenchmen in Algeria-one million strong-de-cide to evacuate North Africa. So far less than 1% have returned to France: the battle of Algeria is still joined, and the French are stubbornly sticking...
...Spot. All this was too much for the militant progressives of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal (Independence) Party. Worried about a nationwide drought which has cut food supplies, concerned over growing unemployment in the cities as French capital withdraws, the Istiqlal looked upon the gathering of the Glaoui clan as both an exasperation and an opportunity to divert discontent. Pointing to the "feudal lords" and "collaborators" driving their big cars through the hungry countryside, trade unionists shouted in the streets of Marrakech: "El Glaoui's wealth must be returned to the people...