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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...
...politicians, he commands the support of the military, and will hopefully heal the breaches between Paris and Algiers and Corsica. More important in the long run, his statements and those of his spokesmen have indicated that de Gaulle will attempt to work for a settlement in the long-standing Algerian war, rather than give in to right-wing demands for an even stronger military effort, as many have feared. Here, of course, he will have to play a delicate game in avoiding alienating the generals, whose support is now so important for French unity...
...face of bitter frustration. In 1946, when it became clear that the Constitution would make the Presidency meaningless, de Gaulle resigned the post voluntarily, even though he had the power to force his way on the Assembly by a military coup. In the present crisis sparked by the Algerian generals' revolt, he has insisted that his return to the government be purely constitutional, and the complexion of his cabinet is strikingly moderate...
...speeches and political conferences, in the Villa des Oliviers. a spacious Moorish residence surrounded by palms, bougainvillaea and armed paratroopers. The number of Deputies Algeria will send to the National Assembly is a problem of secondary importance, declared Soustelle. "The real crux of the matter is that the Algerian Moslems want integration, not independence or any other formula. The events of the past two weeks have been a plebiscite...