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...tumultuous night, the S.A.O. strategy went completely off the rails. Raoul Salan and his S.A.O. staff planned to goad the Moslems with indiscriminate terror attacks until they lashed back with mob action against the Europeans. According to S.A.O. theory, once both sides were locked in racial war the French army would not hesitate to intervene on the side of the European pieds-noirs. But someone blundered, in what may well prove to be the fatal turning point for the S.A.O...
...with the ceasefire, De Gaulle's government last week released Ben Bella and his friends from confinement in the Chateau D'Au-noy, near Paris. The French wanted to return Ben Bella and his companions to Morocco, but both the French government and the F.L.N. feared that Salan's Secret Army Organization might attempt to re capture him. F.L.N. intelligence reported that the S.A.O. had at least seven Mystere jet fighters ready to intercept any flight across the Mediterranean...
...Algerians govern themselves. He asked the million disaffected Europeans to stay on and cooperate with the new Algeria. Paying tribute to "the glorious losses" sustained by the French army, De Gaulle applauded its discipline, despite "the solicitations of criminal adventurers." He alluded to General Raoul Salan's terrorist S.A.O. by announcing that a common-sense solution had won out in Algeria over "the frenzy of some, the blindness of others...
...wound up in a circle of executioners. "The commandant," he later reported, "was a distinguished man in his 60s, and extremely polite. 'Signore,' he said to me, bowing, 'I have the honor of informing you, in the name of our supreme commander, General Raoul Salan, that you have been sentenced to death.' Turning to the others, he said, 'Shall we get it over with...
Pleading for his life, Giovannini finally promised to sing Salan's praise in print. The "commandant" stayed his execution and returned him to the Aletti with a message for all twelve Italian newsmen in Algiers: leave, or die. Eleven left by the next available plane. The twelfth, Nicola Caracciolo, 30, of Milan's Il Giorno, defiantly holed up in the Italian consulate for three days ("It is my moral and professional duty to stay at my post"). Then he, too, prudently fled to Rome...