Word: bollardi
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...France's most distinguished soldiers, General Jacques Marie Roch Paris de Bollardière, paratroop veteran of Indo-China, last week asked to be relieved of command of the Algerian sector east of the Atlas Mountains. His reason he made plain in a letter to L'Express Editor Servan-Schreiber, who had served as a lieutenant in his command and now faces treason charges for his published indictment of army brutality to Arabs in Algeria. "I think that it was highly desirable," General de Bollardière wrote to Servan-Schreiber, to have called attention to "the frightful...
Between those who thought, as the rioters did, that there must be no letting up in Algeria, and those who agreed with General de Bollardière that things cannot go on as they are, all France seemed to be caught in a dialogue without decision. In the circumstances. Premier Guy Mollet's government might limp on a few months more, for lack of an alternative, but, said Figaro, "the rot is setting...
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