There could hardly have been more disparate figures than the two F.N.F. leaders. Ortiz, the burly, bonhomous bar-keeper with the hooked, prizefighter nose, whose swarthy features, bright ties and well-cut suits testified to his Spanish origins, epitomised the pied noir with his emotional vehemence. Born of poor parents, he had certainly shown no lack of physical courage, having fought in the French campaign of 1940, been taken prisoner but escaped, and then re-enlisted to fight again in Italy. His political philosophy, said The Times (of 27 January 1960), "in a woolly sort of way is authoritarian and neo-Fascist"; he was an unimpressive speaker, but a potent rabble-rouser through sheer volume of noise. On the other hand, Susini, sickly of physique and unprepossessing, with sparse fair hair and eyes of fire in a chalky face, was a frigid but brilliant political intellect and an impelling orator.

XREF: Contrast with other paired-leadership dynamics in historical movements where one figure supplies visceral appeal and another strategic intellect.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1067