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...Oran, shortly before his return to Paris, De Gaulle, in the presence of Soustelle, Delbecque and Massu, flatly ordered the insurrectionary Public Safety Committees to get out of politics. Said he: "Authority is in the hands of General Salan and his subordinates, and it must not be contested. You have no more revolutions to make because the revolution has been accomplished." In reply, the Algiers Public Safety Committee pledged itself to support De Gaulle "with out conditions and without reservations." As his jetliner carried him back to France, Charles de Gaulle was keenly aware that the men he left behind...
Nobody knew better than Pierre Pflimlin, in that moment of surface parliamentary victory, that the time had come to get out. From Algiers General Raoul Salan had flashed an urgent warning that he was losing control over Brigadier General Jacques Massu's paratroopers, could not be responsible for their actions if De Gaulle was not called to power soon. In France itself, pro-Gaullist "Committees of Public Safety" had sprung up in more than 100 towns, and when Interior Minister Jules Moch telephoned provincial prefects to find out what they were doing to suppress the committees, many a prefect...
...army for services it had rendered France "under the flag of the Republic." This farce had been scarcely played out when the Deputies went on to vote 473 to 93 in favor of giving Pflimlin special powers in Algeria-powers which Pflimlin blandly promised to delegate to General Raoul Salan, commander of the rebellious Algerian army...
...Eleventh Hour. For a few hours it appeared that perhaps Pflimlin and Coty had turned the trick that easily. The first response to their appeals was hopeful: General Massu acknowledged General Salan's authority. But then, in a speech of masterful ambiguity, Salan acknowledged himself in authority but finished off with the rallying cry of the French colons in Algeria: "Vive De Gaulle!" On top of that came De Gaulle's "I am ready" statements from Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, neither endorsing nor disavowing Massu's coup -a fact sure to put new heart into the insurgents...
...Algeria over to the rebel F.L.N.,* crowds broke down the doors of the USIA offices on Rue Michelet and scattered books and periodicals in the street. Then, their ranks grown to 30,000, they jammed the main square for a ceremonial wreath-laying at the war memorial. General Raoul Salan, once commander in Indo-China and now commander in chief of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria, and tall, leathery General Jacques Massu, the paratroop commander, drove up to the war memorial. Shouting "We want Massu!" and "The army to power!", the crowd crushed around the generals...