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Today the French-this time Algerian Spahis-are back in Pforzheim. They came not as occupiers but as part of the thin line of defense the West is building against Soviet aggression. "This is the first time in history," said a Pforzheimer quietly, "that the French have entered our country without ravaging...
Education: From Algerian high school to St. Cyr Military Academy, where in 1911 he graduated first in a class that included Charles de Gaulle...
There is nothing "modern" about his house, at least in the stiff, sterile, museum sense. It look's like the home of a traveling tinker, cluttered with gadgets, junk and such craft objects as an old cradle scythe, an Algerian blanket, a tom-tom, a coffee table made from a square sheet of aluminum, calabash rattles and rattles made of beer cans filled with pebbles. Somehow, Calder's wife Louisa keeps the place livable, and their two children play happily among the mobiles...
Tall, flat-flanked General Mark Clark was the only U.S. general officer in World War II to lose his pants in enemy territory. He lost them trying to launch a small boat in the surf off the Algerian coast during his daring trip by submarine from England to meet French underground agents before the North African invasion. At other times, he served as deputy to General Dwight Eisenhower, helped make the Allied deal with French Admiral Jean Darlan, later commanded the Fifth Army in its long, bitter fight up the Italian peninsula. This week, as it must to all generals...
...British and French troops to test Western defenses against "an invasion by superior enemy forces from the East," began in Germany this week. The green-clad "invaders," a U.S. armored force, struck from the borders of Soviet-held East Germany and Czechoslovakia, forced back the British ist Royal Dragoons, Algerian troops from the French zone, and miscellaneous U.S. forces including regiments hastily summoned from Austria and Trieste. French, British and American planes whined overhead. Even the U.S. Navy joined in, with small craft on the Rhine. After retreating, the defenders were scheduled to "regroup" and then wage a "victorious counterattack...