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On the Alert. As soon as De Gaulle took power, he restored Ely to his old job, encouraged him in the quiet dispersal of May 13 plotters, including General Raoul Salan, the overall commander in Algeria, who has now been made Commandant of Paris, an honorific post. But the sickness...
The Moral. The authority granted General Ely last week is both a consequence and a symbol of the vast new peacetime role De Gaulle has given France's army. Famed for courage-Ely wears the Croix de guerre with six citations (both World Wars and Indo China), still carries...
Last week, clearly acting as De Gaulle's spokesman, Ely gave French officers a pep talk in the official National Defense Review, outlining their new mission. The Soviet bloc, wrote Ely, is not necessarily as monolithic as it looks. Already, he declared, "Russia, in its endeavors to catch up...
Chief threat to such a happy ending, Ely emphasized, is Russian expansion in Asia and Africa-"for each new implantation of Communism helps it find again the purity of its younger days." Hence the prime task of the West is to keep Russia out of the underdeveloped nations by carrying...
These were high-flown words-and thoughts-to come from the pen of an old soldier. But they were words carefully calculated for their effect on France's restless officers. The moral that Ely and De Gaulle clearly intended them to draw: the fate of Western civilization will rest...