Professors Claim Rebels Can Not Oust DeGaulle

Two professors predicted yesterday that the uprising in Algeria against the French Fifth Republic will not succeed because it lacks any apparent "extension" in metropolitan France.

The insurgents will probably fail in their attempt for independence unless the government of the Fifth Republic resigns of itself, according to A. Nicholas Wahl, assistant professor of Government. It is unlike the situation in 1958, when the insurrection crossed over into France itself, Wahl declared.

Wahl pointed out that DeGaulle will probably wait to see how long the insurgents can hold out. What the rebels want, Wahl said, is not so much an overthrow of the Republic, "although some wouldn't mind." Instead, they seek a change in the Gaullist policy towards self-determination. If DeGaulle holds out long enough, however, the rebels will undoubtedly "give up the ghost," Wahl commented.

Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, agreed with Wahl about the transient nature of the insurrection. "Could 2,000 people throwing up barricades in New York overthrow the President?" he asked. DeGaulle has two choices, Hoffmann said. He can either shoot into the rebels or "starve them out." The latter action would create less bad feeling among those colonials not participating in the fighting.

The Algerian uprising has generally boosted DeGaulle's "stock" in metropolitan France at a time when such a boost was badly needed, Hoffmann declared.