Word: massu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble began one morning fortnight ago with Major General Jacques Massu, the wiry paratrooper who was front man for the May 13, 1958 Algiers military insurrection and now commands French forces in Algiers. In an interview with Hans Ulrich Kempski, star reporter for Munich's Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Massu complained that the army did not understand De Gaulle's Algerian policy, and added: "De Gaulle was the only man at our disposal. Perhaps the army made a mistake." Within 24 hours after Kempski's interview hit France, Massu was on his way to Paris to explain. From Algiers...
...Boulevard. In Algiers-where censors vainly tried to hold up the news -word of Massu's dismissal sent European crowds surging into the streets with cries of "De Gaulle to the gallows!" On a sunny Sunday more crowds milled aimlessly along the city's great Boulevard Laferrière. But at noon-when many of them began to drift off for lunch-an ultra spokesman appeared on a balcony to shout, "French Algeria is surely worth a meal!" Late in the afternoon the restless crowd began overturning cars and setting up street barricades...
...gendarmes who retreated. But as they disappeared from sight, a convoy of six-by-six trucks full of Massu's old paratroopers came roaring up, sirens screaming. And this time, unlike 1958, the army was not on the side of the mob. Slapping on an 8 p.m. curfew, General Maurice Challe, French commander in chief in Algeria, went on the air to declare a state of siege. While Algiers counted its casualties-19 dead, 141 wounded -Challe angrily blamed the ultras for starting the firing, and announced: "The uprising will never triumph over the French army. I am having...
DeGaulle and Premier Michel Debre rushed back to Paris to deal with the crisis, which erupted because DeGaulle fired Gen. Jacques Massu, hero of Algeria's million French settlers, as Algiers area commander. Massu was suspected of opposing De Gaulle's more liberal policy for Algeria...