Word: algerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...involved in the Algiers insurrection. It consisted instead of parliamentary ministers and nonparty technicians centered around France's three major "democratic" parties. Among them: Socialist Guy Mollet and Catholic Popular Republican Pierre Pflimlin as Ministers of State; Independent Antoine Pinay as Minister of Finance. Those right-wing Algerian French ultras who had gleefully plotted the downfall of Pierre Pilimlin's government were shocked and disheartened by Pflimlin's appearance in the De Gaulle Cabinet. As for those outside France, who feared De Gaulle's well-known propensity for going it alone, they could take consolation...
...depressed over De Gaulle's political eclipse and the decline of the French empire. Delbecque volunteered for military service in Algeria. During a patrol with the famed "Black Commandos" he was struck, as if by revelation, with the solution to the Algerian War. Poking into a ramshackle hut during a search for concealed arms, he saw on the wall three photographs: one of the late Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, one of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one of De Gaulle. The Moslem owner of the hut, asked why he kept those particular pictures, replied: "Because...
While the Fourth Republic tottered and Moslems in Algerian cities mingled with French colonists in a new and still-uneasy friendship, what of the rebels...
...rebel newspaper El Moudjahid briefly noted last week that one Ramdane Abbane had "died of wounds while inspecting F.L.N. troops on Algerian territory." Behind that brief notice lay a significant story...
...Kabylia region between Algiers and Bougie, Ramdane Abbane graduated from a French lycée, managed to get one of the few civil-service jobs open to Moslems. From the first a hot-eyed revolutionary well-read in Marx, Abbane at 27 belonged to the inner council of the Algerian nationalist movement. Betrayed by an informer, he served five years in French prisons, emerged from jail in 1955 just as the rebellion was gathering strength...