Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against this background, nobody expected much unity to result from the Organization of African Unity, especially under the dubious leadership of General Mobutu, who had enough troubles of his own trying to persuade Algeria to release Moise Tshombe so he could execute the former President...
...Cabinet, replacing nine of its members. What Mobutu would like to be rid of most of all is Moise Tshombe, his old political foe, for whom, he insists, Schramme's men were bringing pressure on his government. With the mercenaries gone, Mobutu may work harder to persuade Algeria, which holds Tshombe prisoner, to send him home for execution...
...satisfaction of helping to write the U.N. Charter and to launch European economic unity; in Geneva in 1954, he also had the unhappy task of negotiating France's retreat from Indo-China. It was he who invited De Gaulle to take power in 1958 in order to keep Algeria part of France...
Once firmly ensconced in the Elysée, though, De Gaulle granted Algeria its independence. Most Frenchmen have by now accepted the fact; not Bidault, who fled France in 1962 to organize a second resistance movement-this time against De Gaulle. Bidault disclaims any responsibility for the terrorism that accompanied the Algerie Française campaign; nevertheless, he was charged with treason, and for five years he wandered in quixotic exile in Europe and Brazil. Now living in Belgium on the understanding that he will not engage in politics, he still hopes to negotiate his return to France. This book...
Self-pitying and venomous toward De Gaulle, Bidault does his cause little good in this book. As he tells it, granting Algeria its independence was a spiritual defeat for France comparable to the military defeat of 1940-hardly a rational conclusion. "If there are fascists in France today, they are De Gaulle's men," Bidault insists. "The present French regime, which some call a 'monocracy,' is basically a dictatorship...