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Once again, gunmen were at work in the streets of Paris, and Frenchmen huddled anxiously to speculate on the next moves of that ugly remnant of Algerian hatred, the Secret Army Organization. Each day's headlines brought some new reason for fear...
...captured De Gaulle, the conspirators intended to hide him away in a villa "between Paris and Versailles," and planned to prevent his escaping by removing his spectacles and suspenders. After several weeks, De Gaulle would be tried by the National Council of the Resistance (the successor to the Algerian Secret Army Organization), and presumably executed...
...surprise. After inspecting the new USIS library in downtown Algiers, G. Mennen Williams, 52, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, was on his way out when up dashed an enthusiastic gentleman. Soapy got the hand, but the beard got him-in a bristly, both-cheeks embrace. The Algerians were all for Williams because he observed the sunrise-to-sundown Moslem fast of Ramadan-plus the fact that their government had decided to headline the U.S. emergency aid (40,000 tons of foodstuffs monthly) that helps nourish the country. Glowed Soapy, when he recovered his tongue: "I shall tell President...
Between 1940 and 1946 de Gaulle rallied the French Empire against Vichy, forged unity out of the diverse elements of the Resistance, and carried a united France into the battle against Germany. Since his return in 1958 he has ended the Algerian War, broken the OAS, cemented the tie between Bonn and Paris so that it might outlast his own life, released most of French Africa from colonialism, presided over the economic resurgence of his country, ended the paralytic reign of the French splinter-party system, and initiated the building of a unified France under a popularly-elected President. This...
Gargantuan Stocks. Conceivably, De Gaulle at one point might have been weaned away from his dream. When he returned to power in 1958 to lead a France still riven by the Algerian war, he demanded admission to a three-power directorate of NATO, but the idea was blackballed by Eisenhower and Macmillan. He probably would have been as intransigent as a co-director as he has been without becoming one. Since then, he has progressively withdrawn French ground and naval forces from NATO commands, banished U.S. nuclear warheads from French soil, and sunk billions of francs into a crash program...