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...machine guns. Leroy's men replied with automatic arms and hand grenades. Fleeing, the attackers left behind them one dead S.A.O. terrorist under a bush. He was the first open battle casualty of the S.A.O., and is already being hailed among ultras as the No. 1 martyr of Algérie Française. Colonel Leroy, keeping his own casualties secret, moved out next night to another secret headquarters...
...Chanting Algérie algérienne, the demonstrators at first shuffled peacefully by in the rain. But at the Rond-point de la Défense, just outside Neuilly, the rabble borrowed its tactics from French extremists in Algiers and Oran: slashing tires, overturning cars, shattering shop windows. Shots rang out and police, flailing night sticks and heavily weighted capes, clashed headlong with...
...cross. The F.L.N. position is that France may "consult" with all Algerian factions but must negotiate only with the F.L.N. Last week F.L.N. tempers flared when Louis Joxe, De Gaulle's Minister for Algeria, said that he would meet with a small Moslem group, the Mouvement National Algérien (M.N.A.), "as I will meet with the F.L.N...
...those Moslems who went to the polls. From the safety of his self-exile in Spain, fiery Pierre Lagaillarde insisted the "F.L.N. flag will never fly over Algiers. We will fight!" But the Europeans in Algeria were drained of such bravado, recognizing at long last that Algérie FranÇaise is dead. They no longer expect help from the French army, which was once their stoutest ally. Even before the referendum, the army showed grudging loyalty to De Gaulle and dismayed the die-hards by opening fire on a European mob for the first time in Algeria...
...referendum convinced even the soldiers who believed in Algérie FranÇaise. "We cannot oppose France and De Gaulle now," said an officer last week. "We thought we were here to guarantee French sovereignty . . . Now we know the French people have a different idea. We must consent by maintaining discipline. But a lot of young officers are not holding their heads high today." The officer corps deeply remembers the war years when Vichyite and Gaullist troops clashed in Syria and Dakar. Above all else, French generals are determined that "never again must the army be divided against itself...