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n Air oa parade
at Sidi Bel-Abbis in
July, 1962, the Legion
naires present colors
of the first battalion.
Shortly after, they
left Algeria forever.
IN A COMFORTLESS barracks near Ajaccio, in
Corsica, the French Foreign Legion is en
during its last days.
It is dying, not magnificently as it once lived the most
decorated regiment of the French Army but slowly,
meanly, without grace, and this week will witness perhaps
the most grimly ironic event in its strange history: the
100th anniversary of Camerone.
April 30 used to be the great day in the Legionnaires'
calendar. A parade would be followed by a day of such un
licensed carousing that they were allowed two more days
to sleep it off. But that was in Sidi Bel-Abbes, the town
which the Legionnaires created, and which they had to
quit last year when Algeria, despite their efforts, became
an independent nation.
It is unlikely that the Legionnaires will be allowed to
drink themselves Insensible this April 30. In Ajaccio they
are strangers, and unwelcome strangers at that
You will not find the Battle of Camerone in any history
books because, as battles go, it was insignificant On April
30, 1863, during Napoleon Ill's venture in Mexico, a
company of 63 Legionnaires under Captain Danjou was
trapped in a hacienda at Camerone by 2,000 Mexican sol
diers. The battle was fought for eight hours until only 12
unwounded Legionnaires were left Danjou, dying, ordered
them to fight to the death.
When ammunition gave out only five men were left
They fixed bayonets and charged. Three reached the Mexi
can positions and were overpowered. The Mexican general
gave orders for their arms to be given back to the prison
ers, who were allowed to rejoin their unit
The battle gained nothing at all in a military sense, but
it symbolized the tradition of loyalty until death, which be
came the mark of the Legionnaire.
1 am told that the Mexican Army still salutes when it
passes the hacienda of Camerone. And in exactly 100 years
the peal of clory that was Camarone has become the death
knell of the Foreign Legion.
I cannot help recalling old Legion friends of mine and
wondering uneasily what has happened to them. As a cor
respondent during the Algerian war, I remember sitting
on rock talking with Angelo Ricci, top sergeant of the
13th Demi-Brigade. They had trapped siiable band of
f.mll Wwklif,
Farewell tothe
April II, INI
Algerians and now were mopping up the hills.
"I have been in the Legion since the war," he said, "and
I cannot go back to Rome."
"Nonsense," I said. "The war has been over a long time.
Even if you had a Fascist record then, nobody would bother
you now."
"That's not true in my case," he said. "No matter how
long I live, I have to stay in the Legion. I can never go back
to Italy again."
It was a shocking remark. What crime or crimes had
been committed by this courteous, smiling Italian who
used a false name and looked like Liberace?
I did not ask. In the Legion, one does not ask, or if one
does, no Legionnaire is obliged to reply, even to a general.
What will happen to Angelo Ricci? What has happened
to Heinrich, my jeep driver, who boasted to me that he
had the S.S. emblem tattooed under his armpit? What will
happen to the score or so of Yanks who served in the
various Legion regiments?
I met two, both of them deserters from the U.S. Army.
I will take the case of one of them let's call him Joe to
explain the dilemma of Legionnaires today. Eight years
ago he deserted from the American Army in Frankfurt
Germany, and took to petty crime. He moved to Paris, and
when he heard that the police had traced him, he took a
subway to Vincennes, the Paris suburb where the Legion
recruiting office stands, and enlisted there.
One OP the MYTHS about the Legion is that it asks no
questions. On the contrary, it checks records carefully
with Interpol. Nevertheless, it decided that there was
nothing in Joe's background even as a deserter and crook
that made him unfit for the Legion. He was accepted
and shipped off to the war in Indo-China. Later he fought
in Algeria.
Joe had been decorated. He spoke fluent French and
German. His life story was not pretty, but the Legion had
made a man out of a thug. What happens to him now?
Technically, after his discharge, he would be allowed to
live in France and take a work permit. But things never
seem to work out that way for Legionnaires. They pine
for Algeria and the comradeship, and in the old days, after
drifting around awhile in Paris, they would re-enlist
But Joe is not going to re-enlist to go to Corsica. He
I
Foreign Legion
The death knell already has sounded for a
military legend but what will happen to the men
who made the legend, the hardened men
with shadowy pasts and no future but the Legion's?
By GEOFFREY BOCCA
will take to crime, get kicked out of France,
then probably be picked up by the U.S.
Army as a deserter. He deserves better.
The fact is that France does not really
want men like Joe. This is the problem
that faces the Ministry of National De- .
fense in Paris today: what to do with a
force of nearly 50,000 men, almost all
foreigners, many of them socially unde
sirable, some of them, such as Hungarians,
without a home to go back to.
Before April, 1961, the Legion had its
glory to justify iUelf. Then the de
cline began. The First Legion Paratroop
Regiment joined the Army insurrection
against General de Gaulle's policy of self
deterir Nation for the Algerians. The re
bellion was quickly suppressed, but the
regiment, perhaps the finest in the whole
Legion, was disbanded immediately and
the Legionnaires dispersed to other units.
Before they were re-posted, the unre
pentant Legionnaires burned their bed
ding and barracks furniture and marched
through Sidi Bel-Abbes singing a cur
rent Paris hit song, "No, I Regret
Nothing" (Non, je ne regrette rien).
French civilians cheered them and shouted,
"Vii'e la Ligion!" As the soldiers drove
!off in five truckloads, many were in tears.
Two days after the First Legion Para
Si (mnn wjaa HinhnndoH that full imnart
I of the disaster struck the Legion. The
celebration of Camerone was cancelled for
the first time in 98 years. Later, the
, Legion was barred from the 14th of July
' parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris.
A few Legion companies still serve in
the Sahara and In Madagascar. But other
j wise its mission is over. The Legion re-
, cruiung oriK.es remain open irecaune uie
Army has not yet gotten around to closing
, them, but there are no recruits now.
The Legion inspired such film classics as
"Beau Geste" which starred Ray Milland,
the late Gary Cooper, and Robert Preston.
The impact of Corsica on the Legion
naires has been painful. In Sidi Bel-Abbes
the Legion was alone with its own kind
in the wastes of Algeria. But Corsica is a
Mediterranean holiday resort To make
their discontent intolerable, off-duty Le
gionnaires are liable to run into tourists
from their own home town. Desertions
have soared, and former Legion officers,
who only two years ago formed the cream
of the French officer corps, are being
hunted as leaders of the O.A.S. and con
spirators against the life of de Gaulle.
The Foreign Legion was never Intended
to win battles, only to hang on, as at Dien
Bien Phu, and hope for a political settle
ment in Paris. The Legion was frequently
defeated, but in iU last battle of all, it
inflicted its most crushing defeat upon it-
self. It deserved a less ignoble ending.
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