The War in Algeria: “A Terrible Responsibility on the Party of Jaurès…”

A group of leading members of the Algerian federation of the French Socialist Party recently sent a letter to the Executive Committee of the French Socialist Party protesting the repressive measures of the Mollet government in Algeria. Excerpts follow:

The policy which the government is following since February 6 is one which fills us with bitterness and anxiety. Its president is imposing terrible responsibilities on the party of Jaures…

Today one can no longer talk of pacification, nor even of blind repression; practically, the unfortunate Moslem populations of the Constantine region and of Kabylia, most of which still trusted the Socialist Party and republican France, are expos...