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...unsuccessful with the rebels, De Gaulle at least was able to prevail over his own troublesome generals last week. Sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, No. 1 soldier in Algeria during last summer's settlers' revolt, was made military governor of Paris. Impetuous paratroop Major General Jacques Massu was assigned to a field command entirely divorced from politics...
...Algeria. After a four-hour Cabinet conference last week, he enplaned for Algeria, his fifth visit to the war-torn territory since taking office. Before leaving, he created the post of Inspector General of National Defense as a niche into which General Raoul Salan, the Algerian commander in chief, could be gracefully moved. Salan's position of power will be diluted into a two-man job. The civilian functions will go to a brilliant civil servant, Paul Delouvrier, 44, the financial head of the European Coal and Steel Community, who recently completed a fact-finding tour of Algeria...
Cheering Bedouins. Landing at Constantine airport with Delouvrier unobtrusively at his side, De Gaulle stressed the civilian aspects of his Algerian visit. He gave General Salan only a perfunctory handshake, but hobnobbed enthusiastically with steel experts in Bone, oilmen in the Sahara, land-reclamation officers in the Moslem villages. At Touggourt, an oasis in the desert, De Gaulle told...
...alarm over this setback to the government's hopes, General Raoul Salan, French army commander in Algeria, in a special broadcast, promised the Moslems complete freedom in campaigning and full protection in voting. De Gaulle would not listen to the appeals of the hesitant that the elections be postponed. "This is an incident," said he calmly. "There will be others...
...Raoul Salan-oldtime professional soldier and no man to be caught in the midst of a fight if he could help it-characteristically tried to avoid trouble by keeping these orders to himself. Relentlessly, De Gaulle forced his hand. One morning last week an aide came into Salan's office to find the general shaking with dismay. "Paris," wailed Salan, "has published the directive...