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Triple Fence. Not only the police but practically all Europeans will hide or help S.A.O. terrorists. The few who are brought to trial are quickly freed by intimidated judges. The police cannot find Raoul Salan, but newsmen have no difficulty in arranging meetings; and three months ago, Salan?with hair dyed black and a new mustache?gave a TV interview to a U.S. broadcasting team without police interference. Salan's whereabouts are shrouded in mystery: on the same day he has been reported in Belgium and at Algiers' Otomatic cafe, an S.A.O. hangout. When he first went underground...
...born in 1899 in the tiny Cevennes village of Roquecourbe but reared in the ancient sun-warmed city of Nimes in Provence. The Salan family was neither aristocratic nor military; his father Louis was a minor tax official and an ardent Socialist. His brother, Georges, two years younger than Raoul and now a physician in Nimes, remembers him as a bright student and as anything but austere. The brothers' friendly relations are not disturbed by politics, and even though Dr. Georges Salan, a Gaullist, was recently bombed by the Nimes branch of the S.A.O., he does not hold it against...
...named Victor. Unlike most, he recognized the responsibilities of parenthood. Dr. Georges Salan says proudly: "Raoul brought his illegitimate son home with him instead of abandoning him to his mother." Lieut. Victor Salan, now 26, and like his father a graduate of St.-Cyr, is studying nuclear-war tactics at St.-Maixent military school...
Late Switch. Five months before the outbreak of World War II. Raoul Salan married Lucienne Bougnin, 28, daughter of a Vichy hotel owner. A cool, tenacious blonde who is called Babiche (little doe) because of her large, soft eyes. Lucienne has never wavered in her loyalty to her husband, is thought to have shaped his ideas and been a spur to his ambition...
...Raoul Salan fought with "remarkable courage" (according to the official citation) against the Nazis in the six-week war of 1940. The armistice with the Germans confronted him with the first of many crises of conscience: Should he support the government of Vichy's Marshal P�tain or switch to De Gaulle and the Allies? Stationed in Dakar, Salan waited four years before joining De Gaulle...