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Soustelle is still the living symbol of the French rightists' "No surrender" policy in Algeria, and as such he stands at the top of the Algerian rebels' "elimination list." Lightly wounded in an assassination attempt last fall (TIME, Sept. 29), he lives under the constantly watchful eye of bodyguards. When he leaves his office on Paris' Rue Oudinot, his movements are signaled ahead by a succession of handclaps; at the ministry entrance and on surrounding street corners, men armed with submachine guns spring to the alert. "Just like a Chicago gangster, eh?" he grinned to a visitor...
...fateful appointment for Soustelle and for France. Soustelle went to Algeria a "liberal," and he vastly annoyed Algeria's European settlers by trying to head off the simmering Moslem revolt with agrarian reform and more government jobs for Moslems. But after August 1955, when a band of Algerian rebels murdered and mutilated scores of French civilians in the mining town of El Alia, Soustelle turned implacably hostile toward negotiations with the rebel F.L.N., called for all-out military suppression. So congenial did the settlers find his new attitude that when Socialist Premier Guy Mollet yanked Soustelle from...
Then George Allen went beyond the expected, polite tributes as he moved to the delicate subject of Algeria (De Gaulle was angered by U.S. abstention on the Algerian question in the U.N. last winter). "We recognize that France faces a problem of greater difficulty and complexity than that which burdens any other free nation," he said. "We welcomed the Constantine Plan* as a major step forward. We welcomed your affirmation of the reality of an 'Algerian personality,' " adding, "We sincerely hope that an equitable and liberal solution-one that will maintain French ties to Algeria -will be found...
...Italians have oil ambitions of their own in the Arab Middle East, and would not think of jeopardizing them by getting involved in the Algerian question. They are happy to be buddies of France in NATO and the European Common Market, but Italians are not interested in undertaking any new adventures under the leadership of De Gaulle, preferring their U.S. connection more...
Once again torture-the Algerian war's most harmful blemish on France's good name-made news. A year ago La Question, an account of French army torture in Algeria, sold 65,000 copies, stirred up a storm of public indignation before the government banned it. Last week Paris police seized another shocker. La Gangrène, 24 hours after it rolled off the presses. Even so, thay were too late again...