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...profession," said France's testy, unpredictable Alphonse Juin in Morocco in 1951, "is to make war−and I am making war." There were others who thought his job in Morocco was to make a peace possible−but then, Alphonse Juin was always a man of stormy views. The son of a French policeman in Algeria, Soldier Juin followed his profession with vigorous abandon from the moment of his graduation from Saint Cyr, declaring war on virtually everybody who opposed him. Cleaving first to Pétain after the fall of France in World War II, he later...
...Cairo, in the wake of a rash of ceremonies celebrating Egypt's freedom from foreign troops, the newly brassbound Chief of Staff of the brand-new Moroccan army, moonfaced Mouldy Hassan, 28 (whose new rank is explained by his competence and his nearness to Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Yousef, his father), got off a neat bit of guidance for neutrals being courted by two worlds. Said he: "We are Moslems and have the right to be bigamists. We can marry both the East and the West, and remain faithful to our spouses...
...shall cooperate with anybody or any country ready to cooperate with us to build our country economically and in all fields. We shall not tolerate being a zone of influence for anyone." He flexed his new muscles: "We must become strong so that all Arabism's lands from Morocco to Baghdad will be for the Arabs and not for the occupiers or the exploiters, so that we can retrieve for the people of Palestine their right to freedom...
...nations) that the French army was already using U.S. war materiel against "the national liberation movement," and that NATO was becoming "a direct means to support colonialism." The U.S. subtly indicated its own feelings on North Africa by elevating a new diplomatic mission at Rabat, capital of newly free Morocco, to the status of an embassy...
...Right had been all set to shell him for freeing Tunisia and Morocco without winning Arab help in pacifying Algeria. But after Mendes-France pulled out in dissatisfaction over the lack of genuine reforms in Algeria, the big guns of the Right, which favor the tough elements of Mollet's Algerian policy, fell silent. The biggest thunder on the Left came from Stalin Peace Prizewinner Pierre Cot. "A war that France cannot wage and does not want," he cried. "The only thing to do is negotiate." But Mollet's attack made its own breaks. Just in time...