Word: massue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody knew better than Pierre Pflimlin, in that moment of surface parliamentary victory, that the time had come to get out. From Algiers General Raoul Salan had flashed an urgent warning that he was losing control over Brigadier General Jacques Massu's paratroopers, could not be responsible for their actions if De Gaulle was not called to power soon. In France itself, pro-Gaullist "Committees of Public Safety" had sprung up in more than 100 towns, and when Interior Minister Jules Moch telephoned provincial prefects to find out what they were doing to suppress the committees, many a prefect...
...last week hardened into an organized revolution. By week's end the insurgents possessed a kind of legislature - the 70-man All-Algeria Committee of Public Safety. They also had an executive, "united unto death"-a three-man supreme junta composed of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, Paratroop General Jacques Massu, and slight, intense Mohammed Sid Cara, a Moslem physician who served as Secretary for Algerian Affairs in the last government...
...street. Then, their ranks grown to 30,000, they jammed the main square for a ceremonial wreath-laying at the war memorial. General Raoul Salan, once commander in Indo-China and now commander in chief of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria, and tall, leathery General Jacques Massu, the paratroop commander, drove up to the war memorial. Shouting "We want Massu!" and "The army to power!", the crowd crushed around the generals' car, hemmed in the guard of honor and the band. Trucks with loudspeakers appeared at the edges of the square, and even during the solemn silence...
...smashed windows. A fully armed company of paratroopers stood idly by, joking with the rioters, accepting beer and sandwiches from ecstatic girls. All at once, there was a martial stir on a second-floor balcony draped with the French Tricolor. A loudspeaker proclaimed: "Silence! An important message from General Massu...
...Only Means." Massu's deep voice boomed across the crowded square, reading a message he had just wired to President Coty and to General de Gaulle:* "We inform you that we have set up a Committee of Public Safety under the presidency of General Massu, owing to the seriousness of the situation and the need to maintain order and avoid bloodshed. The committee awaits with vigilance the formation of a Government of Public Safety -the only means of keeping Algeria an integral part of French territory...