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Moderation, in fact, was the keynote of De Gaulle's game. Ostensibly, France's World War II hero spent most of the week in solitary retreat at his home in the village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, waiting for France to send for him. But from "authoritative sources" and "persons who have talked to the general within the last 48 hours" came a rash of inspired stories on his political intentions. Their burden: De Gaulle had in mind "only a short term of office," and if he got it, would confine himself to settling the Algerian...
...thwacking of Papon's night sticks and the defiance of the Algerian generals could not be heard in the sleepy (pop. 365) village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, 150 miles southeast of Paris. But these were expectant sounds that reverberated in the imagination of Colombey's first citizen, a towering man of 67 with an equine face and the stiff, awkward movements of a French career soldier. And they were sounds that drove him at last to pick up the telephone, an instrument he dislikes, and summon an aide from Paris to receive a typically laconic statement...
...acknowledged General Salan's authority. But then, in a speech of masterful ambiguity, Salan acknowledged himself in authority but finished off with the rallying cry of the French colons in Algeria: "Vive De Gaulle!" On top of that came De Gaulle's "I am ready" statements from Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, neither endorsing nor disavowing Massu's coup -a fact sure to put new heart into the insurgents in Algiers, who were still refusing to submit to any authority save De Gaulle...
Schuman later explained that any step toward "stability and authority" must be taken only through "democratic and parliamentary measures," but his "incautious remark" sounded like one more cautious invitation for a return of General Charles de Gaulle, 67, who sits in Mac-Arthurian solitude at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises waiting for the French Assembly to admit its own bankruptcy and send for him on his own terms...
Mendes-France had an even more radical proposal: that a Cabinet of ex-Premiers be formed "under the patronage" of General Charles de Gaulle. Recovered from a cataract operation, the famed World War II. Free French leader has been coming to Paris once a week from his retreat at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises and seeing some politicians. De Gaulle always made his terms perfectly clear: a stronger executive and a "large and liberal" French Union in which the North African states would have independent status. Scorning the come-and-go of ordinary Premiers, he waits for the day when...