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...holy month, Ramadan. It was also the time Charles de Gaulle had chosen for his latest broadcast report on the Algerian situation, and he sounded as if, for him, the night held no doubts whatever: peace with the Moslems of Algeria would soon be concluded, he insisted, and the terrorist Secret Army Organization would be crushed...
Salan is not a terrorist any more than Caroline Kennedy is. He is a man who believes with his soul that Algeria is a part of France. He knows that De Gaulle has be trayed his trust, and he is now against De Gaulle's idea of giving away this oil-rich area. Salan is an honorable, conscientious leader of men, and he has a cause based on justice and the dignity of man. Is this a terrorist...
...they have lorded it over for so long. To prevent this at all cost is the avowed aim of an ugly, desperate new force on the Algerian scene: the Secret Army Organization (Organisation de l'Armée Secrète), an underground band of Europeans using the F.L.N.'s own terrorist methods. Lead er of the S.A.O. is not a European of Algeria but a Frenchman born in France ?ex-General Raoul Salan, 62, white-haired veteran of a dozen of France's wars, now under sentence of death for treason to the Republic. So is most of his staff...
Rebel General Raoul Salan escaped arrest to become the leader of the terrorist Se cret Army Organization, and his staff is made up of such tough ex-paratroop officers as Colonel Yves Godard and Pierre Lagaillarde...
Leroy Was Here. Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, an S.A.O. detachment opened fire on Villa Bel Air with bazookas and machine guns. Leroy's men replied with automatic arms and hand grenades. Fleeing, the attackers left behind them one dead S.A.O. terrorist under a bush. He was the first open battle casualty of the S.A.O., and is already being hailed among ultras as the No. 1 martyr of Algérie Française. Colonel Leroy, keeping his own casualties secret, moved out next night to another secret headquarters...