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...Jean-Marie Le Pen, a right-wing tough elected as a Poujadist, interrupted: "Of the two dangers that menace the independence of France-Bolshevik Russia and the United States-the latter is by far the worse." Then the banderilleros retired, and Gaillard found himself face to face with burly Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, the man whom Frenchmen have come to call Jacques le tombeur-Jacques the Cabinet-wrecker...
...Seeds. As French Deputies trouped back from their holidays, they had clearly heard the voice of their constituents: Algeria is French and must remain so. Scarcely had the Assembly reconvened when right-wingers launched an all-out attack on the "federal council" clause of the loi-cadre. This, stormed Gaullist Leader (and onetime Governor General of Algeria) Jacques Soustelle, "sows the seeds of Algeria's eventual legal secession...
There were only a few grumbles. Jacques Soustelle, Gaullist ex-governor of Algeria, pronounced his verdict: "Nasser wins only because he hasn't lost." Mollet entered an Assembly dissatisfied by partial victory. He saw his chance when a Poujadist Deputy, going too far, complained: "Our paratroopers died for the Queen of England." Wrapping his fingers around a floor microphone, Mollet shouted: "Never forget that if we are able to sit on these benches and speak as free men it is because from 1940 to 1941 the British held on alone." Every Deputy but the Poujadists and Communists gave...
...From Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, who was governor of Algeria under Mendès-France, came support for Lacoste. Said Soustelle: "If the Mediterranean becomes a moat instead of a passage, France will cease to be a great power and will see the whole of Africa closed...
...opened a book and stationery store. While Pierre's mother minded their four children, Yvette tended shop and Poujade peddled books on his route in an ancient Renault. He got a taxi license, drove summer tourists on sightseeing trips, conducted guided tours for summer visitors. As a Gaullist, he was elected to the town's 24-man municipal council...