Word: carlini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mort, à Mort, à Mort." Carlini, who has a Marseilles flair for colorful prose, described what happened next...
...city of France, resembles in many ways the San Francisco of Barbary Coast days and the Chicago of Al Capone's era. Animosity between Gaullists and Communists reaches a shriller pitch in Marseille than anywhere else in France. In Marseille last week the new R.P.F. (Gaullist) mayor, Michel Carlini, 58, who had been mauled by a Red mob, lay on a couch, his head wrapped in bandages, and said...
...decree go through. Nevertheless Red labor leaders summoned workers to the city hall to demonstrate against the fare increase. Two days later, the new council was having its first plenary session at the City Hall. Glowering, stocky Jean Cristofol, the ousted Red mayor, fixed a baleful eye on Carlini, his Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse; one of them threw a chair at the mayor. A woman Socialist thereupon spattered Communist Cristofol's shirtfront with ink and spat...
...City Hall. There I was warned that Communist shock troops were on their way over. We waited, and soon heard the rumble of the mob outside. Then, one by one, we heard the doors of the City Hall crash open as fiendish howls of 'Death to Carlini' grew nearer...
...They stood motionless, stiff as ramrods," Carlini recalled. "Not one of them moved. I thought my last moment had come, when suddenly a score of Gardes Mobiles showed up. In a most determined manner, they forced a passage through the crowd, freed me and took me back to the City Hall. I was put in an ambulance, but couldn't get to the hospital until an hour later, because the crowd blocked the road and tried to overthrow the ambulance...