Entering the Terrorist Age?

At the end of January Raymond Marcellin, French Minister of the Interior, ordered dissolution of four “liberation movements”—two rival factions of the Breton Liberation Front, the Basque Enbata, and the Corsican Liberation Front. These organizations, like hundreds of others throughout the non-Communist world, have combined open political agitation with terrorist activities.

M. Marcellin, however, did not motivate his decree of dissolution by either their open politics or their underground violence, but by the links each had established with revolutionary groups in other nations: Enbata with Spanish revolutionaries, the Corsican Front with Italian, and the Breton factions with the Provisional IRA.

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At the end of January Raymond Marcellin, French Minister of the Interior, ordered dissolution of four “liberation movements”—two rival factions of the Breton Liberation Front, the Basque Enbata, and the Corsican Liberation Front. These organizations, like hundreds of others throughout the non-Communist world, have combined open political agitation with terrorist activities.

M. Marcellin, however, did not motivate his decree of dissolution by either their open politics or their underground violence, but by the links each had established with revolutionary groups in other nations: Enbata with Spanish revolutionaries, the Corsican Front with Italian, and the Breton factions with the Provisional IRA.