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dated May 27, 1958: Flare-up in N. Africa

Britain and the United States have been urging utmost caution on all sides to try to prevent armed clashes between French forces on the one side and Tunisian and Moroccan troops on the other, officials in Washington said on May 25. These diplomatic approaches had not been made in the form of warnings. United States officials said that the appeals had been made in Paris and in Tunis and Rabat, the Moroccan capital. The deep-seated concern in Washington about the possibility of a clash has been increased by the realisation that the Paris Government has little control at this time over French forces in Algeria. One official view expressed in Washington was that if there were armed incidents in North Africa then the whole question of Algeria would become internationalised. The United States has thought to avoid any semblance of interference in the French-Algerian crisis, but armed clashes in North Africa will probably force the Government to take a definite stand.

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