Sun-soaked, raffish, turbulent Marseille, the largest seaport and the second city of France, resembles in many ways the San Francisco of Barbary Coast days and the Chicago of Al Capone's era. Animosity between Gaullists and Communists reaches a shriller pitch in Marseille than anywhere else in France. In Marseille last week the new R.P.F. (Gaullist) mayor, Michel Carlini, 58, who had been mauled by a Red mob, lay on a couch, his head wrapped in bandages, and said:
"I am not a man of politics. Only the tragic situation of my country and my admiration for General de Gaulle persuaded...