5 FRENCH DISSCVMDLE ANGI OVE SLIZURCS
PARIS -- the de Gaulle government has decided to follow discretion in relation to the nationalization of properties owned by Europeans in ‘Algeria. A formal protest was filed April 5 cherging the Algerian government with having violated the Ivian agreement which ended the war last year. The owners of the nationalized holdings were not “comnensated"” for their losses as is required by the agreement. —
The protest demanded that Algeria live up to the agreement, _but no threats of specific reprisals were made. -
The press reported that. the French ambassador to Algeria, Georges . Gorse, will make a stronger statement in private, telling Algerian | officials that Trench tolerance has reached its limit and thet further , measures at this kind will wreck co-operation. | : Henry Giniger,. Paris correspondent of the Hew York T Times, explained the reasons for the French restraint as follows:
"One “ey to the rolatively mild French stand is ‘understood to be France's desire to protect her considerable investments in Saharan oil. Drusque or aggressive action by Trance, it is feared, might incite the - Algerians to ‘socialize’ the oil installations as they have other q French~owned property. + « «
“Another key is france's desire not to compromise her rapproche- / ment with the Arab world. That was symbolized by the re-establishment ' of diplomatic relations with Cairo this week."
On April 6, Ben Bella interrupted a speech he was giving in Arabic at Oran to say a few words in I'rench to the reporters. ."I greet with “ getisfaction the position taken by the French government, as. expressed yesterday, above all’ since it indicates that this government: understands 6 that Alceria wants to carry out things its own waye e . ! Later he added: "I thought out any socialization projects during the years I wos in prison in France."
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