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...hands trembled, and his voice was little more than a whisper. His first retreat was to accept the resignation of 79-year-old General Georges Catroux, whom he had appointed Minister for Algeria (TIME, Feb. 13). Catroux' appointment had been a political blunder in the first place. To Algerian French, Catroux was "the liquidator'' of France's presence in Syria and Lebanon, the man who had presided over the return of Morocco's Sultan ben Youssef from exile -and they had reacted fiercely and predictably. The blunder was compounded by Mollet's hurried abandonment...
...Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, has an unfortunate linkage in French minds with the French withdrawals from Syria, Lebanon and, in its first stages, the loss of Indo-China. When he accepted responsibility for Algeria last week, Catroux came out stoutly for a loosening of French authority over Algerians. "Algeria," said he, "cannot be treated like a French province. We must think of a statute that will give satisfaction to the Algerian personality. For example, a large administrative autonomy . . . with an equal share of rights and duties among all citizens...
...Here I am. Here I stay," reads the inscription on a war memorial in Philippeville, but few of the 35,000 Europeans living on their raw nerves in or near the embattled Algerian seaport now feel like making it their own motto. In the days before the restless, roving bands of fellagha began pillaging, burning, looting, killing, and destroying all that the French had brought to their country, busy, picturesque Philippeville had hoped to become "the Nice of Algeria...
...charge came first from L'Express, the pro-Mendes-France daily, in an attempt to discredit the Algerian policy of Premier Edgar Faure. Then the government itself picked up the charge-arid played it back with an anti-American overtone in an obvious effort to divert at tention from the flop of its Algerian policy. A communique from the Ministry of the Interior (headed by Faure himself) said that the gendarme could be court-martialed and the cameraman charged with bribery. The communique did not mention the cameraman's nationality, described him only as "a representative...
...scene of violence at the invitation of French military authorities and accompanied by five other newsmen. "I not only never talked to the gendarme," he said, "but I am almost sure that he never realized I was filming the incident." France-Soir ran a dispatch from its Algerian correspondent backing up Chas-sagne's story, and a testimonial from his colleagues, who agreed: "He has a horror of violence in any form. It is unthinkable that he might have asked a gendarme to execute a prisoner." In the face of all this, the government retracted its charge, admitted that...