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...Arch of Triumph. President René Coty-whose badge of office usually excites big applause -got only a scattering of handclaps. Premier Laniel's car rolled past and some shouted and hissed. "Send him to Dienbienphu," cried some. "Shoot him!" others shouted. Defense Minister René Pleven drew the same derision. "Resign! Resign!" some in the crowd chanted. Whether these shouts represented isolated outbursts or the common mood was hard to tell...
Outside, in the streets of Paris, the affair did not end so smoothly. At week's end, bands of right-wing students, veterans, followers of General de Gaulle and monarchists began parading and shouting, "Vive Juin!" Laniel and Pleven went to a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe for the fallen soldiers of Dienbienphu...
...ceremonies, a glowering, hostile crowd surrounded Laniel and Pleven. Gaullist hooligans lunged at them, shouting: "Resign! Resign!" Leaflets showered down: "They fired Juin today, will they arrest De Gaulle tomorrow?" A man shook his fist in the Defense Minister's face. Officials helped Laniel elbow his way to a police car. Police had to link arms and plow a path before Pleven could make it to his own car. "This is the first time such a disgraceful and disagreeable scene has ever occurred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," said an official...
...demonstration was shocking enough, but the reports that went out to France and the rest of the world were even more shocking. Correspondents (including those of the Associated Press, United Press, New York Herald Tribune) reported colorfully, and in varying detail, that Pleven had been slapped, his hair pulled, his glasses knocked off, and that the Premier of France had been kicked-one said in the pants. "Both were jostled badly," said one of the demonstrators later, "but not hit. I am sorry Pleven was not mauled...
...show near Paris, France's Defense Minister Rene Pleven and Britain's Minister of Supply Duncan Sandys, a son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill, had a brush with death when a Mystere IV jet fighter plane touched a wingtip to the ground, crashed and exploded before them, killing the pilot and sending flying wreckage over their heads...