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rage 6A EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Wed., March 13, 1963 r Nurtured by Humiliation, Frustration and Defeat Calamitous Seeds of OAS Planted in Indochina By RICHARD K. O'MALLEY Of th AnocUted Vrtst PARIS Ml The terrorist Secret Army Organization of France is a product of humiliation, frustration and defeat. Its seeds were sown in the rice paddies of Indochina, where the little brown men of the Communist Vict Minh triumphed. It was nurtured in the humiliating disaster of the Suez venture. It flowered bloodily in the red soil of Algeria. These items of history arc responsible, too, for attracting to its ranks names once venerable in the proud military history of France. These men believe that they are patriots and Presi dent Charles dc Gaulle the traitor. For them, Algeria was the last straw. They had seen their armies defeated and thwarted elsewhere and they were deter mined to keep Algeria French by any means. History had passed them by, but in their fanatic determination they wanted to make it stand still. They could not realize that when the first band of rebels raced out of the Aurcs Mountains in 1954 Algeria was already lost. Do Gaulle, with his eye sharply upon the march of events, realized the hard fact of Algerian independence and said so. The men who created the secret army heard him with astonish ment and rage. So, in April 1961, the secret army became an organization with a name and an aim. It was in that month that Gen. Raoul Salan, France's most decorated soldier, led the disastrous putsch of the generals in Algiers which crumpled in four days. Two generals became prisoners. Air force Gen. Maurice Challc quickly gave himself up. On May 6, Gen. Andre Zcller surrendered. Salan and Gen. Edmond Jouhaud fled Algiers in a truck loaded with para troopers. From then unlil independence came to Algeria the secret army and its killers swaggered bloodily through that land. They established networks in France and the roar of plastic bombs shattered the calm of Paris and of other cities. They were exploded in warning, in retribution and in savage black mail to obtain funds. In Algeria it was easier to get money. Borrowing from the tactics of the old Bolsheviks in Russia, they robbed Algerian banks recklessly. It was not the first strategy borrowed from the Commu nists. Some secret army men, veterans of Indochina, adapted New Superintendent Due at Sunset Home A man with 16 years of expe rience as a hospital and rest home administrator, Alvin Langehaug of Whittier, Calif., has been named the new super intendent of Sunset Home at 3500 Hilyard St., Eugene. Langehaug, 57, will arrive in Eugene Thursday to begin his duties at the Lutheran retire ment and rest home on Friday morning. Ho fills a post now held hy William Tweet of Eugene, who was named interim superinten dent one and a half years ago. Tuesday A. P. Junker of June- lion Cily, chairman of Sunset Home's board of directors, said the residents of the home and the board of directors "sincere ly appreciate the fine services" of Tweet during his interim service. On announcing the appoint ment, Junker said, "Sunset Home and the community are fortunate to have a man with such high professional qualifi cations as superintendent Lange haug." Langehaug, past president of the Lutheran Hospital Assn. of America and a fellow in the American College of Hospital Administrators, was administra tor of Fairvicw Hospital in Min neapolis, Minn., from 1947 to 1952. He went from that hospital, a 200-bcd facility, to Milwaukee Hospital in Milwaukee, Wis. This 350-hed hospital included a convalescent wing for senior citizens. In 1957, he took a post as director ot public relations tor the Lutheran Hospital Soci ety, tne administrative group for three hospitals, in Los An gclcs, and in 19B0, went to Whit tier, Calif., as administrator of Murphy Hospital. Langehaug majored in social science and administration at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., and then took graduate work in the same two fields at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. Ho also did grad uate work in public relations at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is married, and has two sons, both collega students. 3 STEREO HI-FI WITH BUILT-IN FMAM RADIO For Only $6995 Mci.l 3K99T In Antique Vhit or Brown nt hirmonuiflg itlurd Twd dwn. Multi-chnnnol amplifier with 3 output trans formers, 4 Golden Voice speakers Super-quiet automatic 4 -speed record changer Separate controls for balance, loudness, and tone Beautifully finished on all 4 sides in wear resistant covering that looks smart in living room, recreation room, or den. Shop Tonite Till 9 at THOMPSON'S 62 W. Broadway rji 3.9273 Vict Minh methods .in their own cause: terrorism and propa ganda, liberally mixed, were served up to the public. The independence of Algeria forced a change in their strategy. So did the arrests of Salan and Jouhaud. Headquart ers were set up elsewhere. It has been rumored that they have administrative cells in Belgium, Austria, Germany, Switzer land, Spain and in France. Spain is cleaning them out. Belgium swooped down on a handful of plotters some time ago. The Swiss reportedly are keeping an eye on men believed involved with the secret army. In France police are swift, viligant and tough. One by one the secret army leaders are being picked off. Gen. Paul Gardy, the last secret army high officer, is still a fugitive. Tough, wiry Col. Yves Godard, former intelligence chief of Algiers, has not been heard of for months. Some say he is dead. Col. Antoine Argoud was netted in a bizarre oper ation less than two weeks ago. Today the two men whose names appear most as secret army chieftains are Col. Pierre Chateau Jobert, who deserted the army in January last year, and Capt. Rci.''. Sergent. It is said that Sergent has taken over as terrorist director for France. The mystery man among those who head the resistance group is Jacques Soustelle, brilliant former Gaullist minister. His name has almost dropped from the news but he may well be helping to direct activities from some nearby country. The secret army has its political arm, called the Council of National Resistance (CNR). It is headed by former Premier Georges Bidault, who was detained in Munich over the week end. It appeared unlikely the West Germans would hand him over to the French government. The CNR's aim. like that of the secret army operational wing, is removal of President de Gaulle from the scene. At tempts have been made on his life and the secret army still is pledged to get him. Despite the announced program to remove De Gaulle from office, there has been no explanation of what the political aims would be if this ever were achieved. Some secret army men brutally declare that De Gaulle "morally deserves" to be assassinated. 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