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Then, from the back of the hall, a non-Gaullist interrupted: "When you were head of the provisional government, would you have allowed a general officer -even a Marshal of France-to refuse to come at your order...
...Everybody Obeyed Me." De Gaulle's followers serenaded him with cries of delight and hand clapping, but most of all, they wanted to hear him on the issue then shaking all France. What about the affair of Marshal Juin? Two-star General de Gaulle placed seven-star Marshal Juin in his niche-"a great military chief who led to victory . . . the army I had confided to him"-and noted that the anti-EDC sentiments espoused by Juin (TIME, April 12) had been De Gaulle's for a long time. The Laniel government-with its "unspeakable mediocrity...
...Rain. Henderson and Ruck persisted, and their patience paid off. To Karatina barracks one day last month came "General" Kareba, with an offer to join China and help to end the war. Later to Nyeri stockade, riding in Henderson's jeep, came two representatives of scarfaced "Field Marshal" Russia, alias Dedan Kimathi, and four more from Mt. Kenya. The British released General Kareba to go back with Kimathi's men as a token of British good faith...
What would happen next depended on the Mau Mau leaders. They apparently disagreed. In the Aberdares, prisoners reported afterwards, Field Marshal Russia warned of a white man's trap: "Those who surrender . . . will be massacred by an atom bomb." But into General Gatamuki's camp came Truce-Talker Kareba, whom the British had released. He persuaded Gatamuki to give himself...
Markezinis did little to win the love of the people. But by ruthless planning and pruning, sternly enforced by the, old marshal, he succeeded at last in putting the nation on a firm economic footing, gave it the first balanced budget in 25 years...