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...like being Sultan and holes up in small palace quarters once occupied by one of Ben Youssef's concubines, is stalling for time, and hoping for a fat French pension in return for abdicating (his advisers are reportedly asking 3 billion francs-almost $8,500,000). General de Latour marched out of his interview with Moulay Arafa, conspicuously and deliberately omitting the traditional Moroccan wish that his reign would be long and prosperous...
World War II: Commanded a Moroccan troop in France, was wounded when the Germans broke the Maginot line. De Latour escaped to North Africa, raised levies among the Berber tribes, led them in Allied landings on Corsica and Elba. In 1946 he was promoted to brigadier general...
France's new Resident General in Morocco, replacing Gilbert Grandval: four-star Lieut. General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, 59, the 14th man in 43 years to hold the difficult job. He is often referred to as General Boyer de Latour...
Vital Statistics: Born at Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, on June 18, 1896. Tall, wiry and weatherbeaten, with thin, greying hair and the jaunty stride of a cadet, De Latour has a courtly and dignified old-army manner, develops a sharp bite when things need changing. Married to a soldier's daughter, he has eight children: seven daughters and a son, who was born five months...
Indo-China: Appointed to command the rainy southern district of Indo-China in 1947, De Latour forgot that he was no longer in the desert, and is said to have defined his strategy in a single, gruff directive: "We'll cut off the bastards' water supply." In 1950, took charge of the combat zone in North Viet Nam but was stricken with dysentery, invalided home...