The nation . theManifesto followed closely the lineof argument used by Ycrites Pour,the clandestine sheet produced byFrancis Jeanson and his associates. mson, a brilliant writer, had beenclosely associated with Jean-PaulSartres monthly, Les Tempsdernes.) But while refusing to identi-fy themselves with Jeanson or hisnetwork (several of whose memberswere recently sentenced to long termsof imprisonment), a large part ofliberal opinion was stirred by boththe Manifesto and the Jeanson promised, in itsissue of September 22, to publish aninquiry into the state of mind ofthe y
The nation . theManifesto followed closely the lineof argument used by Ycrites Pour,the clandestine sheet produced byFrancis Jeanson and his associates. mson, a brilliant writer, had beenclosely associated with Jean-PaulSartres monthly, Les Tempsdernes.) But while refusing to identi-fy themselves with Jeanson or hisnetwork (several of whose memberswere recently sentenced to long termsof imprisonment), a large part ofliberal opinion was stirred by boththe Manifesto and the Jeanson promised, in itsissue of September 22, to publish aninquiry into the state of mind ofthe young in respect of militaryservice in Algeria. The paper waspromptly seized on instructions fromthe Ministry of Defense. In the fol-lowing issue, dated September 29, itdevoted two pages to reactions byyoung people to this vital problem;again the entire issue was confiscated. 1 HE confiscation of the two suc-kles suggested that the• rnment had made up its mindto ruin France-Observateur financial- r 29, 1960. mlufcot Fri rvatcur ly. Even more serious, perhaps, wasa series of police raids on the homesand offices of a large number of left-wing intellectuals, among them theoffices of the left-wing Catholic re-view. Esprit. Was this rather spec-tacular police drive part of the policyof a bewildered government whichfeels that it must strike at the Leftin order to reassure the Right aftercertain gestures it had had to makeagainst the extreme Right in recentweeks? For everything today showsthat de Gaulle has increasing reasonto be scared of the extreme Right —the Army, the Algiers ultras andtheir unnamed accomplices in metro-politan France. In the last few weeks, evidencehas been piling up that the FrenchArmy is in a state of ferment, andthat recent developments in Africahave started countless officers on anew gambit. As we know, de Gaulledid a great deal, in the last twoyears, to purge the Army in Algeriaof the people most closely associated with the pronunciamento of May13, \hout
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