ALGERIAN PLAN

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 13

ALGERIAN PLAN

Rejection By Rebels (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) TUNIS, September 23. The insurgent Algerian "provisional government” will reject France’s plans for Algeria, which the French President, General de Gaulle, announced last week. Sources said that the rejection could be expected in a communique to be issued tomorrow. It was expected that there would be three points in the insurgents’ reply to President de Gaulle: (1) There must be no partition of Algeria. (President de Gaulle envisaged a form of partition to keep Sahara oil wells in French hands and to keep Algeria French where a majority of the population wanted it.) (2) A cease fire must be negotiated with the insurgent F.L.N. organisation. (The French President made it clear that French authorities would not negotiate with the insurgents.) . (3) The F.L.N. recognised that “self-determination” for Algerians was a big political step.

1956 SUEZ CAMPAIGN

British Part Defended

MANCHESTER, September 23

The Prime Minister (Mr Macmillan) began his electioneering tour of the provinces last night with a forthright declaration that he still believed Britain’' armed intervention in Suez was justified. The Suez controversy, which split the nation in 1956, is being refought in the current campaign for the General Election on October 8. Mr Macmillan arrived in Manchester last night at the start of a 2000-mile election tour and told a rally: “I know there were, are still are, different views held here as to whether we acted rightly or wrongly. I still believe that we were justified and that history will take this view.

“And remember that the temptation to inaction is always greater than the urge to act. So, often, are the dangers.” The leader of the Labour Party, Mr Hugh Gaitskell, also started a “whistle-stop” tour yesterday. His first meeting was at Bristol. Mr Gaitskell also tackleu the Suez issue in his speech at Bristol in a passage attacking the attitude of the Conservative Government towards the United Nations. He said that today Mr Macmillan and Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, were full of smooth words about the United Nations.

It had been a very different story three years ago, he said, “when they both were so deeply involved in the Suez aggression.” Mr Gaitskell said: “No words were then too bad to describe the United Nations. They were in a rage because the Assembly overwhelmingly condemned their conduct.

“Why should we believe they have changed? They have never even admitted they were wrong.

“Whatever mistakes the Labour Party may make or may have made, we would never—never—have done a thing like that,” he said.

Ten Drowned In Boating Mishap

MUNISING (Michigan), Sept. 22. State police said today that 10 persons, including eight children, drowned today in a boating accident on Lake McKeever, about 14 miles south-east of the upper peninsula community of Munising.

Foui bodies were recovered. The victims were a mother and her eight children and an uncle. The father, Leonard Larson, aged 42. survived by climbing on to the overturned boat.

The father told police the family had started across McKeever Lake to pick cranberries. He said when he started the outboard motor on their heavily laden boat, shortly after pushing off from shore, it swamped, and went down quickly in 15ft of water. ,