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...Lease-Breaker. As his first major act of personal rule, De Gaulle summoned Minister of the Sahara Jacques Soustelle, 48, a Gaullist since the 1940 fall of France. Abruptly, with no attempt to soften the blow, De Gaulle told Soustelle that he was fired-"because your personal stand on Algerian questions is too different from my own." Bitterly, Soustelle replied: "You might have waited until June 18, 1960. That would have finished off a 20-year lease on my life...
General Maurice Challe, 54, short and stocky, is De Gaulle's military chief in Algeria. A longtime Gaullist and holder of the coveted Compagnon de la Libération Medal, Challe introduced new aggressive tactics in carrying the fight to the rebel F.L.N. by hard-driving incursions into the mountain areas where they had long been supreme. Born in Vaucluse, a graduate of St. Cyr, the French West Point, he was a general staff officer when war broke out in 1939. After the French collapse, Challe entered the Resistance and is credited with sending Eisenhower's headquarters...
...Algeria was a display of weakness which encouraged the rebels to believe they could win independence by violence. But without the support of the army, the settlers could not hope to resist De Gaulle successfully. And though increasing numbers of junior officers outspokenly echoed the settlers' complaints, Old Gaullist Massu had long made it clear that, while he might grumble, he would never revolt against De Gaulle. In Paris late last week, reflecting on the circumstances of the Kempski interview, Massu-a brave soldier, but not a brilliant man-concluded that he had fallen into a trap somehow baited...
Wahl pointed out that DeGaulle will probably wait to see how long the insurgents can hold out. What the rebels want, Wahl said, is not so much an overthrow of the Republic, "although some wouldn't mind." Instead, they seek a change in the Gaullist policy towards self-determination. If DeGaulle holds out long enough, however, the rebels will undoubtedly "give up the ghost," Wahl commented...
Fire Me. But Gaullist ideologists in Debre's Cabinet-led by Minister of Industry Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and Justice Minister Edmond Michelet-had other ideas. To keep the French economy growing, they argued, the government must exercise more active control of business. They wanted to: ¶ Establish a government corporation, similar to Italy's state petroleum monopoly, to refine and market Sahara oil; ¶Adopt West Germany's"co-management" scheme-which would give France's heavily Communist unions seats on the board of directors of every important French company; ¶ Set up a government bank...