Word: algerianness
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Twenty-nine months after returning to power, General de Gaulle has been unable to win or end the Algerian war, and though France has no one else to turn to, discontent is spreading. The left calls upon France to negotiate peace; the right calls for war in Algeria to the bitter end. President Charles de Gaulle's vague proposal for an "Algerian Algeria" irritates both left and right, the Europeans in Algeria because it promises too much, the Moslem because it promises too little, and Frenchmen in general because it hasn't solved anything...
...news conference last week in the Palais d'Orsay Hotel, newsmen found Salan flanked by 30 retired generals in mufti, a band of right-wing Deputies and Senators, and a cheering section of strong-armed Poujadists. Salan read a statement denouncing De Gaulle for trying to settle the Algerian war by "negotiating with murderers...
...Gaulle, who has long studied and well performed the difficult art of leadership, once wrote of the importance of holding "some piece of secret knowledge in reserve which at any moment may intervene, and the more effectively from being in the nature of a surprise." As the Algerian crisis worsened last week, as pundits gloomily predicted sedition, street fighting and army coups d'état, De Gaulle was in desperate need of some "piece of secret knowledge" that would surprisingly intervene and save France from factionalism and national failure...
...editions of various newspapers, ranging from the left-wing Catholic Témoignage Chrétien to the right-wing Ri-varol. Two cartoonists of the prickly, left-center Express-Siné (The French Cat) and Tim-were charged with "publicly insulting the army" in cartoons critical of the Algerian war. Oddly, the Moscow-financed Communist press, despite its noisy demands for peace in Algeria, remains untouched...
Student rallies have been banned. Newspapers are sporadically "withheld" from the public, as are many books on the Algerian War. There is great justification for Sartre's recent comment, "Algerian independence is already a certainty. What is uncertain is the future of Democracy in France...