Word: algerianness
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...wiry paratrooper who was front man for the May 13, 1958 Algiers military insurrection and now commands French forces in Algiers. In an interview with Hans Ulrich Kempski, star reporter for Munich's Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Massu complained that the army did not understand De Gaulle's Algerian policy, and added: "De Gaulle was the only man at our disposal. Perhaps the army made a mistake." Within 24 hours after Kempski's interview hit France, Massu was on his way to Paris to explain. From Algiers, spokesmen for the diehard European settlers' organizations loudly warned De Gaulle...
Ducking into doorways and houses, the home guardsmen fought back and within moments other armed French Algerian civilians, pulling out hidden weapons, came to their aid. Caught in a crossfire, the gendarmes dropped into the boulevard's wide middle gardens and unlimbered their automatic weapons. For 20 minutes, while the street lights blinked off and on, the crackle of rifle fire alternated with the rasping bursts of heavy machine guns...
...official of the French consulate in Boston recently labelled a proposed Law School Forum discussion between a French representative and a member of the Algerian provisional government as an insult to the honor of France...
...kept out the Algiers mob and most of the rebels' outside support. The marked stiffening of the army's attitude followed the sudden replacement of Brig. Gen. Jean Gracieux by Brig. Gen. Kleber Toulouse as on-the-spot commander. Gracieux was sent back to the countryside to fight the Algerian nationalist rebels...
Because of the recent outbreak of hostilities in Algeria, the Forum had invited Abdel Kader Chanderli, an envoy from the Font de Liberation National, the provisional Algerian government (now in Tunis) to argue the stand of the nationalists. They had also asked the French consulate either to send or to recommend an expert to clarify the colonial position of the Fifth Republic...