Word: tixier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Salan's chief attorney, showboating, right-wing Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, did try to prove in court was that his client was continuously duped by De Gaulle. He produced in court a previously unpublished letter, dated Oct. 24, 1958, in which De Gaulle flatly promised Salan that his government would never deal politically with the Algerian F.L.N. Yet fully two months before the letter was written, Tixier-Vignancour cried sarcastically, De Gaulle's agent and present Premier, Georges Pompidou, "had already made contact" with the F.L.N. on political questions and had reported to De Gaulle that...
...Salan is executed, and the amnesty is voted three days later," cried Tixier-Vignancour, "a whole lifetime would not be enough to repair that error." He concluded: "Let us not sow in the future the seed of discord for a generation which is, gentlemen, in your hands...