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These were small fry-an improbable bunch to mastermind a plot against the life of the President of France's Fifth Republic. The real responsibility, most Frenchmen suspected, must lie elsewhere. For its part, the S.A.O. haughtily denied complicity. Paris newspaper offices received a crude mimeographed declaration headed, "September 12, Somewhere in France"; it insisted that the attempt was "not ordered by our headquarters for the sole reason that our organization is not in readiness to take power in Metropolitan France." But few doubted that it was the intention of the S.A.O.'s thou sands of bitter extremist...
...days after his narrow escape from death, Charles de Gaulle went to Mass near his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. Then, on his way back to Paris, just like hundreds of other Frenchmen, he stopped to gawk at the site of the attempted assassination. Full of scorn for the bungled job, which police still attribute to the right-wing Secret Army Organization (S.A.O.), De Gaulle cracked: "You know, those birds of the S.A.O. are as stupid as the fellows who guard...
This is a novel only because French Author Pierre-Henri Simon chooses to call it one. Actually, it is an antiwar tract and one of the most eloquent in recent years. It is the author's bitter J'accuse, telling all Frenchmen and the world that France, first in Indo-China and now in Algeria, has given its soldiers ignoble roles in shameful wars. Says the hero's friend: "You can't say that war's our industry, for it nearly always costs us more than...
...intelligent, Paris-educated national who was now fighting for the Communist Viet Minh, Larsan heard a criticism of France that was hard to deny: it was "too generous with us and too hard . . . too intelligent and too stupid." France was perfectly willing to pass on its culture, but Frenchmen were never really willing to accept natives as equals, and so, as in all colonial rule, "a moment comes when there's too much accumulated anger on one side and too hard a carapace of pride on the other; and then a trial of strength becomes inevitable...
...resound to the powerful explosion of plastic bombs. Some nights there may be only three or four; once last week there were 19. When European audiences in movie houses hear the muffled roar of a distant bomb, they break into applause. The victims of the explosions are Moslem shopkeepers. Frenchmen who are considered to be liberals or Gaullists. or policemen who appear to be searching too hard for European terrorists...