France: The Life of One Man

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As the trial continued its flamboyant way, the wild rhetoric of the defendants could not conceal the implacable determination to kill. La Gloire summons French men in many directions. Five of the gunmen who took part in the Petit-Clamart ambush are still at large, including the most dangerous of all, Georges Watin, 39. nicknamed Boiteux (The Limper), who the police say was also the brains behind the Ecole Militaire plot. A French Cabinet minister, emerging from a meeting at the Elysée Palace last week, said worriedly to a friend: "Never has De Gaulle's life been in such danger.''

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