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...locked, and to re-enter the reign of law." But there were thunderous hoots of disbelief from right-wing diehards, who were determined to stymie De Gaulle's plan for Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). Most of the deputies from Algeria boycotted the session, and the Gaullist U.N.R. Party was shaken by the angry resignation of nine right-wingers, who considered any concessions-even talks with the rebels-as the first step toward France's total loss of Algeria. "I refuse all solutions of compromise," cried tough Colonel Robert ("Leather Nose") Thomazo, as he walked...
...Shadow of Violence. Unable to carry the day by parliamentary means, the extremists coldly set out to create an atmosphere of near civil war, reminiscent of the May 1958 uprising that toppled the Fourth Republic. At midweek, Gaullist Lucien Neuwirth, World War II underground fighter, publicly charged that a "commando of killers" had crossed into France from Spain with orders to assassinate leading ministers, government officials, and newspaper editors. Police pooh-poohed the warning until Left-Wing Senator François Mitterrand, who supports negotiations with the F.L.N., narrowly escaped death in the heart of Paris, when unidentified machine gunners...
...broadcast. But the public and politicians felt sure that a "liberal" solution was coming-and everything De Gaulle did last week strengthened that belief. In a move clearly intended to head off potential army resistance, rightist General Andre Zeller, chief of staff of French ground forces, was replaced by Gaullist General Andre Demetz. And to the African Premiers, De Gaulle for the first time used the word "self-determination" in connection with Algeria...
...Architect. With Algeria's troubles as his theme, Soustelle mounted a parliamentary assault that toppled two of the last three governments of the Fourth Republic. Outside Parliament he began, with practical organizing skill, to pull together the network of Gaullist and wealthy Algerian settlers who on May 13, 1958 touched off the military revolt in Algiers. Today he indignantly insists that "there was no plot, or that sort of stupid stuff." But a moment later he pulls out a copy of a book spelling out the details of the Algiers plot and, with a chuckle, points to the author...
...very name had come to suggest conspiracy and revolt against legitimate authority, was somewhat of an embarrassment to De Gaulle, and in the first months of De Gaulle's reign, relations between the two grew increasingly formal. Even after the Union for the New Republic-the self-proclaimed Gaullist party organized by Soustelle-swept to an overwhelming majority in the Assembly of the Fifth Republic, De Gaulle continued to regard Soustelle as too controversial to have conspicuous power. The premiership went to Gaullist Lawyer Michel Debré, a relative unknown; for Soustelle there was an agglomeration of odd jobs...