Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conferred with France's Charles de Gaulle, West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and Britain's Harold Macmillan in a difficult Western summit meeting. To a ruffled Premier De Gaulle he explained that the U.S. is basically in sympathy with French attempts to end the struggle in Algeria. But in private session he argued adamantly against France's pullback of support from NATO'S integrated defense (see FOREIGN NEWS), agreed to disagree until more staff work could be done on the problem...
...Gaulle opened his demands that NATO have responsibility for coordinating Western policy all around the world. Instead of confining itself to averting Soviet aggression in Europe, he argued, NATO should bind its members to support one another's interests everywhere-and specifically to support France in revolt-torn Algeria. To frame common NATO policy, De Gaulle suggested the formation of a three-power superdirectorate composed of the U.S., Britain and France...
...obduracy over air defense and atomic weapons was heavily responsible for NATO's inadequate state. When Twining's remarks were leaked to the Associated Press, France's touchy officialdom howled with injured pride. The touchiness increased with the U.S. abstention in the U.N. Assembly vote on Algeria, which France did not take as indifferently as the U.S. expected (TIME, Dec. 21) and with Eisenhower's joint declaration with Tunisian President Bourguiba that the continued fighting in Algeria was "a cause of grave concern." When Secretary of State Herter, arriving in Paris, opened a courtesy call...
...began in September 1956, when a bomb hidden in a fire extinguisher smashed the office of a Hamburg sporting-goods dealer named Otto Schlüter, killing one man. Schluter's "sporting" weapons, police say, included hand grenades and medium guns bought in Communist Czechoslovakia and destined for Algeria. Schlüter survived that first bomb attempt and a later one that buckled his Mercedes sedan and killed his mother. Frankfurt Gun-Runner Georg Puchert was not so lucky. When he started his Mercedes one morning last March, a bomb exploded squarely under him. Puchert fell dead across...
Special Experience. His outfit, Durieux said, finds its membership in the French administration in Algeria, "and in particular, policemen and retired policemen. Above all, there were the Corsicans living in North Africa." Was the French government's Deuxieme Bureau (counterespionage) involved? "I could not comment on the possibility that individual members of the service are in sympathy with us," he said...