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Baptiste the Goat. The Canadians swiftly got to work behind man-high barricades of barbed wire. Machine guns were mounted on Ferret armored cars, and the "Van Doos" (a corruption of Royal Vingt-Deuxième Régiment) organized themselves into platoons and companies as more and more troop-laden planes dropped out of the Mediterranean sky. Mess Sergeant Roméo Saulnier, bent over the first three stoves set up, said, "I've got orders to cook supper for 400 men tonight, lunch for 600 tomorrow, and for 800 next...
...design for the Fifth Republic in Paris. Perhaps with his mentor in mind, Senghor conceded in one of his poems that "absolute power requires the blood of the most dear being." In any case, by week's end he had grandly christened Senegal's new regime, "La Deuxième République...
...Dubois, a Swiss, felt deeply for France, another secret-service man in France's own Deuxième Bureau in Paris was differently affected by his own government's handling of Algerian policy. The Deuxième Bureau man tipped off the Egyptian embassy in Bern that its telephone lines were being tapped by Dubois' outfit. Furthermore, the information thus obtained, including the support the Algerians were getting from Egypt's Nasser, was leaking back to Paris...
...potential agents. The West has many more potential friends -the oppressed inside the Communist empire-but since most of them are inaccessible or terrorized by the police, Western strategists rely most heavily on professional intelligence outfits-the U.S.'s CIA, Britain's Military Intelligence, France's Deuxième Bureau, etc. Last week West Germany covertly confirmed what had long been widely suspected: Bonn, too, has its own apparatus of anti-Communist spies. Büro Gehlen, as the Germans call it, is now to become an official arm of the West German government...
Between the wars he served as a cavalryman in Syria and Morocco, but he also studied armored war at Saumur. He still refers to himself occasionally as un vieux blindé (an old tank officer). In the late '30s he became chief of the German Section of the Deuxième Bureau (Intelligence), and by war's beginning he was well known as a good intelligence officer. When the Nazis entered Paris in 1940, the Gestapo made a beeline for his apartment, but their bird had flown, joined up with the headquarters of the army in the retreat...