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...Seizures of newspapers in Algeria must stop unless Salan's administrators were prepared to bring legal charges against the editors involved...
...election to the French National Assembly, he decided to act. "What imbeciles!" exploded De Gaulle. "The future of Algeria depends on these elections, and here they are circulating lists designed to sabotage all the plans." Still seething, De Gaulle fired off a peremptory directive to General Raoul Salan, French commander in chief in Algeria. In it De Gaulle ordered that...
...Gaulle on every surface available. Propaganda films make the rounds of the villages, suggesting to women that a oui vote will put a new stove in every kitchen. Troops assemble the local population to warn them that non is a "vote for Communism." Even Commander in Chief Raoul Salan and his wife have taken to the hustings; Salan claims to have spoken to 2,000,000 people, telling them that "the Mediterranean crosses France the way the Seine crosses Paris," while his wife makes speeches to Moslem women...
...instead of waging war, is indulging in politics"). And early this month, when Paris Presse's Reporter Jean Larteguy visited Bigeard's school in search of material for a series on "the sickness of the French army," the outspoken colonel gave him an earful. Dismissing General Raoul Salan, commander of French forces in Algeria, with the mocking nickname "Papa" Salan, old Noncom Bigeard hammered away at his favorite thesis: "The staff officers want to run a staff war when really this is a noncom's war . . . The colonels must march with their men, not circle overhead...
Neither Left nor Right. This was the opportunity for which Bigeard's "political officers" of Algiers had been waiting. In righteous indignation General Salan sent an aide to demand that Bigeard apologize and issue a retraction. Bigeard refused, and Salan promptly sent him off on two months' compulsory leave, "pending reassignment in Metropolitan France...