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...mission was official admission of what has long been recognized privately in Morocco-that French counterterrorists are operating with the indulgence and sometimes cooperation of the local French police. Counter-terrorism began about nine months ago soon after the arrival of gentle Francis Lacoste to succeed General Augustin Guillaume as Resident General. To suspicious French colons, Lacoste, after hard-boiled General Guillaume, smelled of negotiation and compromise, and they denounced the national government's policy as "treason." Clandestine French organizations sprang up, calling themselves "The White Hand," and "Agir" (to act). They were manned by hired killers imported from...
...once was in Indo-China, with results that eventually may be just as bad. For the past nine months, as a French resident put it recently, "Morocco has been living in an acute state of siege." Others called the ironhanded regime of the Resident General, Old Soldier Augustin Guillaume, a "police state," and even saw a prospect of civil...
...went on trial in a bleak, whitewashed room where the only ornament was a faded portrait of Franco on one wall and the only touch of color was the red plush of the judges' chairs. The accused had six defense attorneys, headed by an able lawyer named Augustin Lacort. The prosecutor read his charges and introduced 17 confessions. Then the presiding judge turned to the first defendant, a worker named Juan Grajales...
...Died. Augustin Duncan, 80, veteran Broadway actor (A Man of the People, Lute Song) and producerdirector, brother of the late dancer Isadora Duncan and Poet-Lecturer Raymond Duncan; of a heart attack; in New York City. In the late '20s, at the height of his career, he began losing his sight but continued to act, in 1932 successfully played the part of the blind beggar in Synge's The Well of the Saints, acted other roles with such skill that audiences often forgot that he could...
...days: 1,000 arrests; 100 or more Arab dead, 60 known wounded and probably many more cared for by their people; five European civilians dead and 13 wounded; three soldiers dead and 43 wounded. "Those who bear the responsibility for these frightful days," said France's Resident General Augustin Guillaume at a funeral for the European dead, "are the sowers of hatred . . . whose cause cried for blood. It is their appeals to fanaticism and disorder, encouraged so imprudently from outside by our enemies, and alas, by our friends, which are at the bottom of the drama Casablanca has just...