A twenty-seven-year-old ex-student supplied the O.A.S.’s political direction

Evidence

Jean-Jacques Susini, the dedicated young right-winger who had first entered the limelight as Ortiz’s éminence grise at the time of “the Barricades” provided the political brains of the O.A.S. To Pierre Sergent, ever since their first encounter that January of 1960, with his pale fanatic’s eyes, his “rigid comportment and incisive speech, Jean-Jacques Susini evoked in me … the image of St Just”. … With full confidence in Susini’s ability, Salan became increasingly content to leave the overall management of the O.A.S. in the hands of this twenty-seven-year-old ex-medical student. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1463

Categorization

• XREF: Susini likened to St Just recall’s Horne’s broader French Revolutionary framing — the chapter’s organizing theme.

Related

• Susini’s politics inverted his Communist father’s left-wing sympathies. (similarity 0.84)
• The failed 1961 putsch drove regular army officers into the O.A.S. (similarity 0.78)