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...military airplane from Algiers quietly set down on Corsica, the small Mediterranean island from which Napoleon Bonaparte sallied forth to win an emperor's crown. Out of the plane stepped Corsican-born Pascal Arrighi, a French National Assembly Deputy and passionate adherent of the two-week-old Algerian insurrection. Barely 13 hours later, 36-year-old Pascal Arrighi, at the head of 250 Corsica-based paratroopers and a mob of 10,000, seized control of the island capital of Ajaccio. From the balcony of the Ajaccio Prefectural Headquarters a local contractor announced, amid shouts of "Vive De Gaulle...
...authoritative sources" and "persons who have talked to the general within the last 48 hours" came a rash of inspired stories on his political intentions. Their burden: De Gaulle had in mind "only a short term of office," and if he got it, would confine himself to settling the Algerian war and reforming France's constitution. The idea that he might embark on hair-raising adventures, such as pulling France out of NATO, was ridiculous. Fact was, chorused the "authoritative sources," that De Gaulle wanted to strengthen NATO, not destroy...
...West than all the lip service paid to "Western unity" by all the weak Premiers of France in the past decade. It would be worth some dissension to have a French government capable of halting the steady diminution of Western prestige in Asia and Africa caused by the Algerian...
...Berets. In January 1957, with the Algerian rebellion in full tilt and the capital city terrorized by bomb attacks, Massu was named Military Commander of Algiers. With 20,000 paratroopers, spearheaded by his own loth Parachute Division, he directed the cleanup of terrorists with thudding thoroughness and violence. He came under fire in France for the "police state" operations of his network of 1,500 block informants, and the torture methods admittedly used by his men on captured Moslems...
...Algiers were convinced that a government in Paris was ready to sell them out, they had put on such an ugly demonstration that a shaken Socialist Premier, Guy Mollet, pelted by tomatoes, had given up all plans for a liberal deal with Algeria's Moslems. Now, the Algerian colons reasoned, another new French government threatened to be "soft" in Algeria and needed a scare. Some among the crowds that gathered in the streets of Algiers were not content to leave it at that...