Arch-Gaullist Soustelle was smuggled out of Paris to join the Algiers rebellion
Evidence
On 17 May the long-awaited Jacques Soustelle arrived in Algeria; his departure from Paris had been as spectacular in its way as his send-off from Algiers two years previously. Having failed to get away on the crucial night of the 13th, the former governor-general and arch-Gaullist had been under closest police surveillance, with some ten policemen watching his apartment in the Avenue Henri-Martin. On the 15th Soustelle let it be known that he was suffering from la grippe and confined to bed. Two days later friends drove a car into the courtyard, brazenly smuggled Soustelle out of Paris half-stifled under a rug reeking of moth-balls, and rushed him across the Swiss frontier where a plane ferried him to Algeria. It was a getaway worthy of his wartime operations. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 890
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Barricades affair marked the defeat of French Algeria policy — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1142; The Algerian settler lobby smeared Soustelle with antisemitic and communist accusations. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 339
Related
- The Algerian settler lobby smeared Soustelle with antisemitic and communist accusations. (similarity 0.85)
Broader Connections
- The Barricades affair marked the defeat of French Algeria policy
#qualifies(0.35) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1142 - The Algerian settler lobby smeared Soustelle with antisemitic and communist accusations.
#complicates(0.30) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 339