Can France Hold North Africa?

When National Reviewasked me this question, I suddenly realized that up to that moment I had never considered the North African problem so coldly and directly – for fear of finding myself confronted with problems touching on the existence and even the very survival of the West. Actually, not only the future of the French Union is at stake in French North Africa; the future role of the Arab community is being determined and that of the entire African continent- that is, whether that continent will be under European or Asiatic influence. What a threat for Europe and America would be the consolidation of an Africo-Asiatic continent, with the Arab world as its axis, and with Russian collaboration! Yet that is neither Utopia nor a nightmare fantasy; it is an entirely feasible prospect. Has sufficient attention been paid to

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When National Reviewasked me this question, I suddenly realized that up to that moment I had never considered the North African problem so coldly and directly – for fear of finding myself confronted with problems touching on the existence and even the very survival of the West. Actually, not only the future of the French Union is at stake in French North Africa; the future role of the Arab community is being determined and that of the entire African continent- that is, whether that continent will be under European or Asiatic influence. What a threat for Europe and America would be the consolidation of an Africo-Asiatic continent, with the Arab world as its axis, and with Russian collaboration! Yet that is neither Utopia nor a nightmare fantasy; it is an entirely feasible prospect. Has sufficient attention been paid to

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