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...time had come to get out. From Algiers General Raoul Salan had flashed an urgent warning that he was losing control over Brigadier General Jacques Massu's paratroopers, could not be responsible for their actions if De Gaulle was not called to power soon. In France itself, pro-Gaullist "Committees of Public Safety" had sprung up in more than 100 towns, and when Interior Minister Jules Moch telephoned provincial prefects to find out what they were doing to suppress the committees, many a prefect was inexplicably unavailable. Most shattering of all had been the upshot of Moch...
Justice Minister: Michel Debré, lawyer, Senator of France, longtime Gaullist and fire-breathing patriot. Hates the idea of European integration, was French delegate to the Strasbourg Assembly, where he blasted the plan for a European free market and the joint use of atomic power. Snapped Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "You suffer from delusions of grandeur inextricably entangled with an inferiority complex." Debré is suspicious of U.S. intentions in North Africa ("The U.S. appears on the scene only when there is a profitable investment to be made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe...
...their own daring, the Algiers insurrection last week hardened into an organized revolution. By week's end the insurgents possessed a kind of legislature - the 70-man All-Algeria Committee of Public Safety. They also had an executive, "united unto death"-a three-man supreme junta composed of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, Paratroop General Jacques Massu, and slight, intense Mohammed Sid Cara, a Moslem physician who served as Secretary for Algerian Affairs in the last government...
...return. Paradoxically, even some of the noisiest proponents of a tough line in Algeria, such as Jacques Soustelle, believe that a France revitalized by De Gaulle could give Algeria some form of self-government inside a North African Federation related to France. "The strong." argues one ardent Gaullist, "can afford to be generous...
...proposal is quickly contested by non-Gaullist "Companions." "De Gaulle in his quality as general?" asks Pflimlin. "No one has the right to interpret a silence," snaps Popular Republican Maurice Schumann in sardonic reference to De Gaulle's refusal to commit himself. Muses Peasant Party Deputy Henri Dorgeères-d'Halluin: "I would first wish to give a last chance to our existing institutions...