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President Charles de Gaulle on the Algerian Crisis

The Mutual Broadcasting System presents a simultaneous translation of a speech being delivered to the French people by President Charles de Gaulle on the uprising in the French colony of Algeria. In 1954, Algeria's National Liberation Front began a guerrilla war against France in order to gain independence and establish self-rule.

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