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...enterprise, the coverage TIME got of the fateful events in Algiers was uncommonly early and informed. Chief of the bureau since 1954, Wisconsin-born Frank White, veteran of wartime service as an officer in Indo-China, speaks fluent French, has drawn on his wideranging acquaintance with eminent Frenchmen to provide TIME with raw material on such cover subjects as right-wing Demagogue Pierre Poujade (TIME, March 19, 1956) and Charles de Gaulle (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959 and May 26, 1958). An old North African hand, he was able to judge last week's Algerian story against the background...
When the European settlers of Algiers began their uprising fortnight ago, it seemed unthinkable that 1,000,000 Algerian "Frenchmen"-60% of whom are Spanish, Italian or Maltese by ancestry-could topple a government satisfactory to the majority of their 45 million fellow citizens in Metropolitan France. But as last week wore on, metropolitan Frenchmen came to realize that it was not the insurgent settlers they had to fear; it was the French army, which stood revealed as neither a neutral witness nor an unwilling accomplice, but as the active and continuing patron of the settlers' revolt. "The army...
...public support in Metropolitan France. Public opinion in the Metropole was behind De Gaulle partly because the likeliest alternative to his government was civil war, partly because his contemptuous refusal to bow to the insurgents' pressure gave good republicans the kind of leadership they had lacked in 1958. Frenchmen also saw Algiers' unseemly display as a blow to France's claim to be a great power. Public opinion was also behind De Gaulle, because France in 1960 is preoccupied with normality...
Barely 20 months after it destroyed one French republic, the unrelenting Algerian revolt last week threatened the life of another. Across the wide boulevards of Algiers crackled the sound all France had so long feared to hear-the sound of Frenchmen shooting at Frenchmen...
...Murder Test. Already more Frenchmen had been killed by Frenchmen than in the 1958 uprising that brought De Gaulle back to power. The cruel irony was that this outbreak had in fact been successfully provoked by Algeria's Moslem rebels. Assembling in Tripoli in mid-December, the leaders of the rebellion reorganized their "government" by dropping four extremist "ministers" (known as "the men of Cairo" and "the men of Peking") and giving increased power to three ex-guerrilla commanders headed by tough, commonsensical Belkacem Krim (TIME, July 7, 1958). Since De Gaulle has long insisted that he will deal...