Word: algerians
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...shoulder-to-shoulder lineup. In fact, given agreement on basic principles. Allied differences have often been useful in dealing with the Russians, allowing the U.S. to be flexible in its tactics. Moreover, one source of frustration in the Western camp was about to be eliminated-the bitter, costly Algerian war that has rendered France particularly erratic...
...longer so sure. Since the negotiations for the cease-fire began various extreme groups have become increasingly vocal in their doubts about the effectiveness of the liberation of Algeria. On the left, the extreme Socialists headed by Sartre have coined their theory of involution--that the violence of the Algerian war has infected and corrupted Metropolitan France. The group that has done most to eat away the confidence of France in her essential stability, however, is the Organization de l'Armee Secrete. It has been the basic purpose of the O.A.S. to alert the metropole to what it considers...
First, Salan and his lieutenants believe that what is being tested in Algeria is not the right of peoples to self-determination, but the will of the West--or at least France--to defend itself against its mortal enemies. The O.A.S. unabashedly calls the Algerian fellaghas the enemies of the West, just as the Communists are. There is a strong racist strain in their position, of which they are not ashamed. They believe that the Communists, though espousing the nationalist cause of all the great unwashed of the colonial world, regard their "dirty little brothers" with scorn...
...Gaullist position considers letting the Algerians go a sign of health and sanity and still expects a new day for France once she has been liberated from Algeria. The O.A.S., on the other hand, believes that the Algerian war is part of the same struggle in which France presumably hopes to participate more vigorously by freeing herself from the Algerian imbroglio. This belief is compounded partly of a desire to assert, once and for all, that the Army's service in the colonies has not been outside the main-stream of contemporary French history. Just as de Gaulle is anxious...
...ideas of the Rightists in the Army, after it became evident that their attempt to make the President "their man" had failed. If Salan really contemplates a coup in France, its purpose would be as much to secure power for this ideology as to continue simply prosecuting the Algerian...