Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At week's end the State Department announced that the U.S., British, French and West German foreign ministers would meet in Paris in March "if developments warrant"-meaning if Moscow has replied by then to the allied notes.
In Paris last week a gaunt, leathery career officer acquired, almost unnoticed, more political power than any other soldier on active duty in the Western democracies. By governmental decree, General Paul Ely, 61, Chief of France's National Defense Staff, was given precedence over all French officials save President...
Ominous 13. The Algiers colonels' revolt of last May was dramatic proof of the disaffection that 14 years of losing colonial wars in Indo-China and North Africa had engendered in French professional officers. Just how deep that disaffection went is now the talk of Paris as the result...
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...
On the Alert. As soon as De Gaulle took power, he restored Ely to his old job, encouraged him in the quiet dispersal of May 13 plotters, including General Raoul Salan, the overall commander in Algeria, who has now been made Commandant of Paris, an honorific post. But the sickness...