Word: tainist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Canceled Cruise. For Algeria's European settlers, the most ominous move of all was the jailing (on charges of "plotting against the security of the state") of 48-year-old Publisher de Sérigny. A World War II Pétainist who barely escaped arrest when the Free French reached Algiers, bald, spectacled Alain de Sérigny has long been the uncontested respectable leader of Algiers' European community, helped incite by his savage editorials the settlers' 1956 manhandling of Premier Guy Mollet (TIME, Feb. 20, 1956) and the 1958 uprising that sparked De Gaulle...
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