country won independence, they followed a very cautious policy, taking their lead from the French government. They avoided taking direct positions on Algerian affairs and.in | general held to the only course open to reactionary editors in such . circumstances -~ they did their best to turn their readers away from politics.
The nationalization of these three newspapers does not involve "freedom of the press" at all. Newspapers from France continue to be admitted (with the occasional seizure of an issue found objec tionable by the government). It represents nothing but the liquidation of vestiges of the colonial past. The land held by the Borgeauds had to be nationalized; it was equally necessary to take over the printing plants that published their reactionary views.
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THE SOVIET: LOAN TO “ALGERIA
The loan of $100,000,000 to Algeria marks a welcome and significant turn-in the policy of the Soviet government toward the newly independent country. The loan runs: for twelve years at two-and-ahalf per cent interest, which is in line with the usual low-rate interest terms of