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...Vous Saviez finally opened in eight small theaters in Paris last month, it proved to be a prodigious (eight hours), three-part history of modern France from the First World War to the death of Charles de Gaulle. Its characters range from French-Algerian "Secret Army" Colonel Antoine Argoud to Communist Leader Jacques Duclos, from a patriotic old Lorraine grocer to a Gandhi-quoting Algerian nationalist. The two film makers, who describe themselves as non-Communist leftists, use all these characters to document their thesis: that liberté, egalité, fraternité are more rhetoric than fact...
...Army Colonel Antoine Argoud, 49, military mastermind of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, last week was sentenced to life imprisonment. Thin and pale, Argoud scarcely looked the part of a conspirator who might plot the death of De Gaulle; yet his trial put a strain on the fragile new friendship between France and West Germany...
...Argoud's terrorist career came to an abrupt end in February 1963 when he was kidnaped in a Munich hotel and deposited in a bloody bundle in the back of an abandoned panel truck in Paris. The French blandly disclaimed any participation in the snatch, and France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville asserted that Bonn had never made formal application for Argoud's extradition...
Even though he was technically correct about the absence of a formal note, Couve de Murville's testimony enraged the West German Foreign Ministry because the French Ambassador to Bonn had been handed an aide-memoire* requesting Argoud's return two weeks before the trial began...
Drifting aimlessly like a man without a country, Bidault today is a pathetic fugitive who drinks too much and talks too much. With the kidnaping of ex-Colonel Antoine Argoud in Munich five weeks ago, and the virtual removal from active operations of Jacques Soustelle, the S.A.O.'s political boss, France's government claims that the movement that once struck terror in the hearts of Frenchmen has just about fallen apart. Hounded by the 61,000-man police force of Interior Minister Roger Frey, the S.A.O. is no longer able to maintain commando units in each of France...