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Bloodless Collapse. At 1:30 a.m. on the morning of April 23, a plane touched down at Maison Blanche airport outside Algiers, and out stepped Raoul Salan. The city was already in the hands of Salan's fellow plotters: Generals Maurice Challe (who had succeeded Salan in Algeria), Andre Zeller and Edmond Jouhaud. Rushing to his villa in Hydra, Salan kissed his wife, put on his uniform and all 36 of his decorations, and hurried to Challe's headquarters on the Forum...
Rivaling Jackie Kennedy for the headlines were the two generals: blond, flint-eyed Maurice Challe, 55, onetime commander of the French army in Algeria, and balding, tight-lipped Andre Zeller, 63. In an ornate, oak-paneled courtroom of the ancient Palais de Justice, both went on trial for leading the short-lived April rebellion against France and Charles de Gaulle...
...General Zeller seemed distracted, kept losing his place in his notes and finally sat down, despairingly putting a hand to his eyes as if saying to himself, "What imbecility! To risk my life for this!" General Challe, erect and unrepentant, spoke eloquently, if not always to the point. Challe thought his insurrection had been aimed at saving Algeria's Moslems from the clasp of the F.L.N. rebels...
Divided Minds. The court, after deliberating 75 minutes, found Defendants Challe and Zeller guilty. Each was sentenced to only 15 years imprisonment, instead of death before a firing squad. General Challe heard the verdict unmoved and departed for Sante prison, reflectively smoking his pipe. Both troubled and relieved by the lenient sentences, Paris' thoughtful Le Monde felt that greater severity might have provoked "the indignation of the majority of the French. Why? Because today minds are divided, institutions uncertain, and civil sense in disarray...
...staff," reported an official sadly, "who on the revolt's first day remained, without ambiguity, loyal to De Gaulle." The revolt leader, General Maurice Challe, was safely in jail in Paris, where he would go on trial for his life within three weeks, and another rebel general, Andre Zeller, turned himself in at the Algiers police headquarters last week. But two others were still at large...