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...Gaulle, by contrast, is in the non-ideological military tradition of modern France; the conception of himself as a latter-day Louis XIV bulks larger in him than the Army thought when it helped bring him to power in May, 1958. The Centurions clearly sides with the army (against Gaullist-Louisism): for M. Larteguy, the revivification of the French army has a much more specific ideological purpose than re-capturing la gloire...
...blow by exploding a 22-lb. plastic bomb in an inner courtyard of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, killing a mail clerk and wounding ten bystanders. During a single day, S.A.O. bombs were detonated at the homes of a distinguished cross section of Paris intellectuals, including TV Commentator Michel Droit, Gaullist Senator Louis Vigier, and Hubert Beuve-Méry, owner of Le Monde. With scathing contempt, Beuve-Méry accused the S.A.O. of setting off its bombs at a time "when the men supposed to be the targets are not usually at home but when their wives and children...
...minor tax official and an ardent Socialist. His brother, Georges, two years younger than Raoul and now a physician in Nimes, remembers him as a bright student and as anything but austere. The brothers' friendly relations are not disturbed by politics, and even though Dr. Georges Salan, a Gaullist, was recently bombed by the Nimes branch of the S.A.O., he does not hold it against Raoul. "Until last April," he says, "He was as every French officer ought to be, that is, a straight military man without any political convictions...
Last week strong hints that an Algerian settlement was near came from Louis Joxe. 60, Minister of Algerian Affairs, an unconditional Gaullist, who is in charge of the delicate treaty dealings with the Moslem F.L.N. Back from a quick visit to Algeria. Joxe pointed out that the bloodletting in the cities was obscuring the peace and quiet of the populous countryside. He seemed to hint that a tacit cease-fire already existed between the French army and the F.L.N. to enable the Gaullist government to deal with Salan. The F.L.N. was reported ready to 1 ) recognize the "quasi-permanent'' nature...
...army, requisitioning property, arresting and interning suspects without formal charges. On the other hand, the uprising could also come too late; Salan cannot possibly hope to prevail against the F.L.N. without at least partial army support, and there are signs that the longer his terrorists go on murdering Gaullist officers, the greater becomes the disgust of the French army...