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...France's most distinguished soldiers, General Jacques Marie Roch Paris de Bollardière, paratroop veteran of Indo-China, last week asked to be relieved of command of the Algerian sector east of the Atlas Mountains. His reason he made plain in a letter to L'Express Editor Servan-Schreiber, who had served as a lieutenant in his command and now faces treason charges for his published indictment of army brutality to Arabs in Algeria. "I think that it was highly desirable," General de Bollardière wrote to Servan-Schreiber, to have called attention to "the frightful...
Politico-Religious. Shrewd, tough, fiftyish General Le Van Vien is one man who could well afford to regard the lifting of a few million francs' worth of uninsured gems as petty thievery. Not long ago he ruled supreme as czar of the underworld in French Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies...
...most powerful men in Indo-China, the undisputed lord of every profitable vice in the land, the czar of the police force, which he bought cash-down from Bao Dai for $1,000,000, he became a close crony of France's puppet Emperor. Between them, Le Van Vien and Bao Dai, who preferred the seclusion of the French Riviera to his own embattled empire, split a daily take of some $25,000 from Cholon's infamous bordello and gambling casino Le Grand Monde, the most spectacularly profitable hot spot in the East...
These failures and faults not only hinder France's solution of her own vital internal problems, but prevent her from participating positively in the international complex. An example of inefficiency was the constant failure to establish a consistent and coherent policy for Indo-China, resulting in prolonged equivocations and indecision...
...recurring pattern of bloody revolt in French colonies from Indo-China to North Africa has sometimes suggested that France, like her Bourbon kings, has "learned nothing and forgotten nothing." Last week, as evidence to the contrary, France acted to forestall future Algerias, by launching a new deal in "Black Africa"-the little-known French domain that sprawls all the way from below the Equator to the Sahara. See FOREIGN NEWS, Timely Token...