Word: fouchet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ailleret raced to Le Rocher Noir, the coastal fortress that houses the French and Provisional Algerian administrations, confirmed Salan's capture to newly appointed High Commissioner Christian Fouchet. As Fouchet called Charles de Gaulle to break the news, a military transport roared off the Reghaia's airstrip, taking the old soldier for the last time from the country for which Raoul Salan, after 44 years of fighting France's enemies, had himself become an enemy of France. Though he is already under sentence of death in absentia, by French law Salan must stand trial. Like ex-General...
...pacified by bullets. From every quarter came appeals to reason. Pope John XXIII wired Archbishop Leon Duval of Algiers, lamenting the "sorrows striking the populations of this land so dear to us" and begging "God to restore concord and end the fratricidal combat." France's High Commissioner Christian Fouchet made a moving radio appeal to the "French of Algeria," asking them not to separate themselves from the homeland. But the Europeans mostly followed the stern orders of the Secret Army Organization's gunmen, who ordered them into the streets time and again to resist the inevitable force...
...searched cars and checked identity papers. (They turned up an unexpected dividend by capturing one Jean Pierre Schecroun, 33, a former Beaux Arts student long wanted for his skillful forgeries of paintings by Braque, Leger and Picasso.) De Gaulle moved confidently ahead, appointing a trusted supporter, Politician-Diplomat Christian Fouchet. to the important post of High Commissioner in Algeria and naming a Moslem as chairman of the Algerian Provisional Executive...
Christian Fouchet, 50, becomes French High Commissioner and "Custodian" of French power until full independence, between three and six months from now, with responsibility for defense and the maintenance-of law and order "in the last resort," i.e., against the European terrorists of the S.A.O., who have already decreed Fouchet's death. A strapping, six-foot athlete with a cannonball serve in tennis and a fondness for quoting the plays of Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux, Fouchet has a reputation for plain speaking and personal honesty. He escaped when France fell, served as a Free French paratrooper...
...other words, the Common Market's Fouchet committee could start from scratch again this week when it begins another round in planning One Europe -an irresistible idea, which Charles de Gaulle may dislike but which will be left for the generation after Charles de Gaulle to achieve...