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...alarm over this setback to the government's hopes, General Raoul Salan, French army commander in Algeria, in a special broadcast, promised the Moslems complete freedom in campaigning and full protection in voting. De Gaulle would not listen to the appeals of the hesitant that the elections be postponed. "This is an incident," said he calmly. "There will be others...
...Night Heaven Fell (Raoul J. Levy; Kingsley International). "Is it fun to make love?" the foxy little doxy inquires as she hip-flips up to the camera and (as the French say) "makes the lip." Since the girl is played by Brigitte Bardot, she obviously has no trouble getting all sorts of answers to her question...
...month's election to the French National Assembly, he decided to act. "What imbeciles!" exploded De Gaulle. "The future of Algeria depends on these elections, and here they are circulating lists designed to sabotage all the plans." Still seething, De Gaulle fired off a peremptory directive to General Raoul Salan, French commander in chief in Algeria. In it De Gaulle ordered that...
...Raoul Salan-oldtime professional soldier and no man to be caught in the midst of a fight if he could help it-characteristically tried to avoid trouble by keeping these orders to himself. Relentlessly, De Gaulle forced his hand. One morning last week an aide came into Salan's office to find the general shaking with dismay. "Paris," wailed Salan, "has published the directive...
...Gaulle on every surface available. Propaganda films make the rounds of the villages, suggesting to women that a oui vote will put a new stove in every kitchen. Troops assemble the local population to warn them that non is a "vote for Communism." Even Commander in Chief Raoul Salan and his wife have taken to the hustings; Salan claims to have spoken to 2,000,000 people, telling them that "the Mediterranean crosses France the way the Seine crosses Paris," while his wife makes speeches to Moslem women...