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...usual, just what De Gaulle's Algerian policy was remained somewhat uncertain. In a front-page editorial, Paris' normally pro-Gaullist Le Figaro grumbled that "it is not excessive for a democratic nation, in circumstances as grave as these, to ask to be informed-and clearly." Yet even such senior Cabinet officers as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville were still unsure of De Gaulle's ultimate aim: whether he still hopes to keep Algeria federated with France or is reconciled to its total independence...
Disowned Poster. In Metropolitan France, the right and left are marshaling their forces. Jacques Soustelle, once the most passionate Gaullist of them all, is calling for a new political movement to embrace all anti-Gaullist forces. Blustering Pierre Poujade, the demagogic champion of the 1953 tax strike by shopkeepers, tried to make common cause with the former commander in chief in Algeria, General Raoul Salan, 61, who has become a virulent opponent of De Gaulle's policy and was recently ordered to stay out of Algeria. At a Paris news conference last week in the Palais d'Orsay...
...easy to forget that the Fifth Republic is the product of a rightist military coup, touched off by fears that the Fourth Republic would sell out in Algeria. Yet, despite such support, the Gaullist government has rapidly cut loose France's colonies and, only two years after the paratroop revolt which brought him to power, de Gaulle dares to speak of autonomy for Algeria. This is indisputable progress, and now he needs time in Algeria, time to establish an atmosphere in which elections are possible, and time to prepare the French public for what must inevitably seem to them...
Others have said more violent things than Salan against De Gaulle's self-determination policy, e.g., ex-Premier Georges Bidault and ex-Gaullist Jacques Soustelle. But what worried De Gaulle was that Salan, as head since last year of a right-wing veterans' organization called the National Association of Combatants of the French Union, has the means to organize the dissatisfaction of many other officers and disaffected veterans...
...taking a tough opening stand, De Gaulle was not only sizing up the rebels but also looking to the nuances of opinion in the forces behind him. General Paul Ely, Gaullist head of France's Joint Chiefs of Staff, is known to believe that negotiations should be long in order that the army can be persuaded to go along with the government at every step. Former Chief of General Staff General Georges Revers last week issued a statement, in the name of a veterans group called "The Army Organization of the Resistance," warning against "abandonment" of Algeria and political...