Word: curit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moch's efforts to put down the Corsican uprising. In defiance of a direct order, France's air force failed to provide transport to Corsica for 125 of France's "most reliable" cops, the black-helmeted troopers of the Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité. And when the C.R.S. men finally did reach the island (aboard a chartered Air France plane), their first act was to surrender to a handful of Massu's paratroopers. Cried tough Jules Moch: "I'm not sure of anyone any more...
Security & Prosperity. Thus began a new and very difficult phase in the life of French Communism. It was openly lining up against "la sécurité de la patrie" dear to every Frenchman...