Word: massue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side to the F.L.N. rebels and on the other to the Army and the colons of Algiers. The F.L.N. is irrevocably dedicated to complete independence and has carried on a campaign of extermination against its moderate Moslem enemies both in Algeria and in metropolitan France. Soldiers like Massu and extremists like Delbecque are reluctant to give up without a victory a war they have waged for more than five years, and, although he has "betrayed" them now, de Gaulle is in this element's debt for putting him in power last...
...officers and noncoms, ate all his meals with officers of colonel's rank or under. Often he would ask a local commander to come along for a confidential chat on a helicopter trip to the next stop. At Orleansville he had a long talk with Paratrooper General Jacques Massu...
...their hero generals of the first May 13, only Paratrooper Jacques Massu was still on hand, and he last week pointedly renewed his allegiance to De Gaulle. General Raoul Salan now has the innocuous post of commandant of Paris, and 1,500 other officers have been transferred out of Algeria. De Gaulle's Governor General, Paul Delouvrier, constantly reminds the Ultras that "policy is made in Paris, even for Algiers," last week bluntly told "those who would divide us" to "shut up or get out." The Ultras are still strong enough to spoil a birthday, but not to wreck...
...Algiers, café owners chalked up the good news on their sport scoreboards, and the government radio blared the achievement: "The fate of Amirouche is the fate of all rebel leaders." But French fighting men were not so optimistic. Said famed Paratroop Major General Jacques Massu: "Amirouche is dead, but they'll find another...
France and Algeria planned to carry out an assault on Paris called "Operation Resurrection." This plan was widely discussed at the time, but the Brombergers' book adds many details. From Algiers, swashbuckling General Jacques Massu was prepared to move on Paris with 1,500 paratroopers-to be flown over in planes supplied from France by a senior air force officer. Other generals in France had promised to support Massu's movement with an additional 4,000 paratroopers, 80 tanks and two battalions of colonial infantry. In all probability the attack would have met with no organized resistance. Unwilling...