Henri Regnier, French Minister of Interior, has postponed his visit to Algeria, where he was to investigate personally the anti-Jewish events which took place in Setif.
In parliamentary circles it was indicated today that the trip of the French Minister was postponed because of fears for his life. It was explained that anti-French agitation in Algeria is reaching high proportions.
“Rifles go off easily,” Deputy Diouf, Moslem deputy for Senegal, declared today. “The population in Algeria is driven to despair by the complete lack of concern for their critical position by the French authorities. Political rights are accorded to French colonists and to Jews only. The French administration is not at all interested in the natives.
DEMANDS CONCESSIONS
“If Algeria became completely independent from France it would soon be swallowed up by Mussolini or Hitler,” the Arab deputy admitted. “But the longer France delays her promise of granting full citizenship rights to the Arabs the more dangerous things will become. It is high time for France to make concessions.”
The French cabinet decided on the creation of a special committee to deal with all problems of the Moslem world in the French Empire of North Africa and Asia Minor. A special department for Moslem affairs will be created at the Prime Minister’s office.
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