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Beyond the Cease-Fire. De Gaulle has not yet put the 450,000-man French army in Algeria to its severest test. Its conscripts are strongly Gaullist but its officers are tortured by the dilemma that to smash the S.A.O. will mean opening fire on brother officers who have either deserted to the S.A.O. or come from retirement to join the terrorists. De Gaulle has kept the army confined to encampments outside the cities, intending to use it as a strategic reserve at the critical moment of the signing of the cease-fire agreement...
...cease-fire negotiations near an end, and the nominal triumph of the Gaullist independence policy grows more likely, the dangers represented by a slack or disloyal police force are greater than ever. For the OAS's intention is no longer to seize power by a putsch, such as was attempted by Gens. Challe and Salan. It is trying, quite simply, to destroy civilian power, to provoke an all out civil war by intolerable violence. In effect, the OAS has embraced anarchy as its goal. Any continuing failure of the police to do its job--to administer the policies dictated...
...ideas of the O.A.S. on Algeria are in many cases vague and confused, sometimes quasi-mystical. But it is clear that it challenges de Gaulle and the Gaullist policy on three levels...
...Gaullist position considers letting the Algerians go a sign of health and sanity and still expects a new day for France once she has been liberated from Algeria. The O.A.S., on the other hand, believes that the Algerian war is part of the same struggle in which France presumably hopes to participate more vigorously by freeing herself from the Algerian imbroglio. This belief is compounded partly of a desire to assert, once and for all, that the Army's service in the colonies has not been outside the main-stream of contemporary French history. Just as de Gaulle is anxious...
...Algerian rebels. Applying what they learned from the Communist Viets, with a violence inspired by disgust at the Metropolitan France where they spent their leaves, they succeed in stemming the F.L.N. tide. The novel ends on this optimistic note, but before the Fifth Republic and the institution of the Gaullist liberation policy...