February 5, 1963
ALGERIA AIDS ANGOLAN RCOVOLUTION
ALGIERS, Feb. 3 -- A public office of the MPLA (Popular Movenent for the Liberation of Angola) was opened here today. Premier Ben Bella, several cabinet ministers, ambassadors of the USSR, China and Czechoslovakis, and representatives of Portuguese antifascist movements attended the ceremonies, .
Ben Bella expressed pleasure over the official establishment of Angolan revolutionary headquarters in Algeria. He stressed the fact that the Algerian minister of Youth and Sports Affairs had trained the | first cadres of the Angolan Liberation Army.
' Insisting on the necessity of combining the struggle against colonialism with the struggle against fascism in Europe, which is of importance to Algeria because of the nearness of the continent, a Bella declared: "It is not by accident that the fascist colonels Faulks, Trinquier, etc., were associated in Katanga with the sinister Tshombe This aspect of the Angolan struggle is very important in our opinion. By striking at the fascist regime of Salazar, we strike the Achilles heel of fascism in Durope."
"At present," the head of the Algerian government continued, "we are in a period of ebb in Africa, which has repercussions even inside the African vanguard movements. This presents us with crave dancers that will become even worse if a radical, revolutionary solution is not found for the Angolan problem. There will be no real construction of our country domestically without an active strugcle on the side of the African liberation movements in general and the Angolan struccle in particular."
At the end of his speech, the premier said that he Wished to say something as "a militant" instead of as head of a government. Turning towards the ambassadors present, he reminded them that "our Angolan brothers need arms and money, not pious motions."
Correspondents in Algiers report that many Algerians have expressed readiness to serve as volunteers in the Angolan Liberation Army if they are needed.