LevelPiece
Ref NoAAB/1/1/7/3
TitleTwo minutes silence
Date25 March 1962
Extent1 cartoon
Creator NameAbraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist
DescriptionCartoon showing Charles de Gaulle and Ben Youssef ben Khedda with their fingers in their ears as a two-minute silence is held for the 150,000 and 17,000 French who died. Refers to the fact that, despite the Evian peace agreement between France and Algeria, ex-General Salan ordered his OAS extremists to make all-out war on Gaullist France.
System Of ArrangementChronological
Access StatusOpen
FormatDrawing

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CodeSet
NA37Algeria/Africa
NA12France/Europe
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