Word: algerians
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...that he is out of work, I suggest the French people elect Eisenhower to replace De Gaulle and end the Algerian...
With the cold judgment of the professional soldier, Charles de Gaulle faced up to the fact that he was surrounded. For weeks past, the Soviet Union had been pointedly stepping up its propaganda support to the Algerian rebels, while Peking trumpeted promises of military aid to them. The U.N. debate on Algeria, scheduled for early next month, was sure to create strains with the French Community nations in Africa. And with the advent of Jack Kennedy, who three years ago publicly spoke up for Algerian independence, De Gaulle suspected that he could no longer count on Washington's tolerance...
...Wreckers. Storm clouds could be seen gathering. In protest at De Gaulle's new course, André Jacomet, No. 2 man in the Algerian civil government, handed in his resignation. De Gaulle's response was decisive. Ignoring Jacomet's resignation, De Gaulle ordered him dismissed from his post and suspended his membership in the elite Council of State. After that, other officials in Algeria who had been muttering about resigning fell abruptly silent...
...through a cheering crowd of 45,000 to lay an armistice wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe. But police headed off a possible riot only by rounding up 1,900 demonstrators, and De Gaulle's old comrade in arms, Algerian-born Marshal Alphonse Juin, refused to take part in the Arc de Triomphe ceremonies. "I had to do something to protest," cried Juin, who is France's only living marshal. His gesture placed France's most influential soldier beside such disaffected army chieftains as the former commander...
...Surveyors. As the weather thickened, De Gaulle was reported ready to put the question of Algerian peace to a referendum in France. At week's end he sent Defense Minister Pierre Messmer and Armed Forces Chief General Paul Ely to Algeria to survey prospects for a unilateral cease-fire and to inform the army that the destination is ultimately an independent republic...