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Died. Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, 76, France's highest-ranking soldier, an acid-tongued officer who was honored for his leadership (commander of French troops in Italy in World War II) but not for his obedience, being constantly at war with authority, whether it was his civilian superiors at the War Ministry or his old St. Cyr classmate Charles de Gaulle, with whom he disagreed on Algeria so bitterly and so often that De Gaulle forced his retirement in 1962; of uremia; in Paris...
...final blow came early last week when the Kasavubu government organized a "spontaneous demonstration" of leftist youths, who burned homemade Belgian flags, marched up Leo-poldville's broad Boulevard du 30 Juin under a forest of banners ("Long Live Nkrumah and Kasavubu," "Down with the Yankees," "Tshombe to the Firing Squad"), and tried to break into Parliament. The army arrested the ringleaders, but when Nendaka's police promptly set them free, Mobutu decided that it was time to step in. He summoned his 14 regional commanders to Leopoldville, where in a conference that lasted until...
...armistice wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe. But police headed off a possible riot only by rounding up 1,900 demonstrators, and De Gaulle's old comrade in arms, Algerian-born Marshal Alphonse Juin, refused to take part in the Arc de Triomphe ceremonies. "I had to do something to protest," cried Juin, who is France's only living marshal. His gesture placed France's most influential soldier beside such disaffected army chieftains as the former commander in Algeria, General Raoul Salan. Ordered by De Gaulle to stay...
...high-ceilinged office in the Elysée Palace early last week, a pair of elderly men who have been friends since their military student days at St. Cyr 50 years ago dispassionately discussed their opposing views on Algeria. Sympathetically, brisk, beefy Alphonse Juin, the only living marshal of France, told Charles de Gaulle that he looked tired. Answered De Gaulle: "I am old. Death waits for me, I know." Then, wearily, he added: "But I have never been so resolved...
Though long retired from active command in the French army, Juin by his stand might stir up troublemakers among the 400,000 soldiers on active duty in Algeria. Taking no chances, French Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat curtly summoned Juin to his office in Paris and reminded him of "the government's will that military chiefs hold themselves entirely apart from political discussions." And in his first order of the day to the troops in Algeria, as President and "Chief of the Armies," De Gaulle himself sternly declared: "In full knowledge of the facts, I have fixed what must...