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When the European settlers of Algiers began their uprising fortnight ago, it seemed unthinkable that 1,000,000 Algerian "Frenchmen"-60% of whom are Spanish, Italian or Maltese by ancestry-could topple a government satisfactory to the majority of their 45 million fellow citizens in Metropolitan France. But as last week wore on, metropolitan Frenchmen came to realize that it was not the insurgent settlers they had to fear; it was the French army, which stood revealed as neither a neutral witness nor an unwilling accomplice, but as the active and continuing patron of the settlers' revolt. "The army...
Then, in the small hours of the morning, De Gaulle recorded an appeal to be broadcast at dawn to the rebellious Europeans of Algeria. "This is a bad blow struck at France, in the heart of France," he began. "I have taken leadership of the state to lift up our country . . . I tell you plainly and in all simplicity that if I should fail in my task, the unity, the prestige, the fate of France will be compromised." The broadcast finished, he turned to an aide and asked: "What do you think of it?" Unhappily, the aide replied with...
Giving Ground. With that, things began to fall apart. Once again Debré offered to resign, urged De Gaulle to replace him as Premier with Soustelle, one of the leaders of the 1958 uprising in Algiers. Soustelle himself, War Minister Pierre Guillaumat, Veterans Minister Raymond Triboulet and Communications Minister Bernard Cornut-Gentille. all submitted their resignations later...
...down, De Gaulle kept his ministers in line with the cold statement that he "demanded of each a mission of sacrifice." But in Algiers, beyond De Gaulle's reach, General Challe and the civil governor of Algeria, Paul Delouvrier, were steadily giving ground. Three days after the insurrection began, Delouvrier broadcast an appeal to the insurgents assuring them that "if order returns, all may yet be won." Lest anyone miss the implied promise. General Challe followed up with the statement that "the French army is fighting so that Algeria will remain French once...
...shattered land of Author Pick's grim novel is Germany during the fall and winter of 1637-38. The Thirty Years' War, which began two decades before, has long since degenerated from a conflict of comprehensible religious and political issues into a series of dogfights among irregular bands of mercenaries. Troops move about the country without pattern, leaving one hamlet in flames as they stalk out to feed on the next. It is the captain of such a rogues' company before whom Vogel, the author's protagonist, is dragged. With nothing more at stake than...