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...Promised independence after the Ottoman Empire collapsed in 1918, Syria was mandated to France, which claimed an "interest" in the area dating from the Crusader kingdoms founded there by Prankish knights in the 11th century. In May 1941 Gaullist General Georges Catroux drove out Vichyite administrators and proclaimed Syria's independence. By 1944 France had shifted most powers to the Syrians, and when the last troops withdrew in April 1946 Syria was completely independent-France's first postwar loss of empire...
Politics & Housing. Being boss and sole owner of the nation's biggest privately owned aircraft company did not satisfy Planemaker Dassault. He turned to politics and was elected as a Gaullist Deputy from the Alpes-Maritimes department, served until he was defeated by a Socialist in last January's elections. As a Deputy, Dassault proposed to the National Assembly that he solve France's critical housing shortage by mass-producing prefabricated, low-cost ($5,000) homes, to be financed with 80% mortgage loans from the government. Though "Maisons Dassault" settlements sprang up in his own constituency, French...
...Struggle: Back in Saint-Ceré the Poujades set up a small book-and-stationery shop, scraped along on sales of tourist postcards. Elected to municipal council on a Gaullist ticket, Poujade developed a gift for homespun speechmaking...
Pacification & Punishment. French official policy is to exorcise the hate and, at the same time, crush the revolt by "neither repression nor abandonment, but pacification." In practice, this means that French Governor General Jacques Soustelle, a Gaullist and professional anthropologist, is trying to do two things at once: fight a punitive war against the elusive terrorists and at the same time regain the villagers' confidence by demonstrating "the presence, power and benevolence of France." The benevolence is the job of some 260 specially trained French officers, sent out with a corporals' guard to the disaffected areas with orders...
...since he suffered a stroke in 1950, limped in on a cane to cast a vote against Faure. But the dominant fact of the present Assembly is that it fears a return to power by Pierre Mendès-France more than it dislikes Edgar Faure. By threatening the Gaullists with loss of all right-wing support in the next elections, Faure's backers pressured a dozen or so Gaullist deputies into abstaining rather than voting against him. When the ballots were counted, the government squeaked through by twelve votes...