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...crucial issue was Morocco, and there, Faure's carom shots had brought the crisis on himself. Three months ago he had sent Gilbert Grandval to Morocco to devise a plan. Grandval did. But when diehard colonists objected, Faure reacted characteristically. He adopted the plan and fired the man who devised...
...resignations; within hours he had installed as Defense Minister retired General Pierre Billotte, a member of the so-called "dissident Gaullists." Billotte's first order was a stern warning to defiant French generals henceforth, "every French soldier, regardless of rank, will do his duty." Then Billotte hastened to Morocco, with orders to hustle De Latour into doing what Faure had already told him to do- form a regency council...
...Violence increased in both Algeria and Morocco. In Morocco, 700 Berber tribesmen burst out of the Atlas Mountains southeast of Fez and fell on the small French outpost of Imouzzer des Marmoucha. At exactly the same time, 90 miles to the north, other bands attacked the small town of Boured and two nearby outposts facing the border of Spanish Morocco. The besiegers cut roads, demolished bridges, held up French relief columns for six days before melting back into the hills. The attackers were highly organized, well armed, and skillfully directed by uniformed officers. The French bitterly charged that they were...
...Morocco, 600 angry colons demonstrated against Deputy Resident General François de Panafieu because he had pressed De Latour to implement Faure's program for a three-man regency council. To placate them, De Panafieu offered his resignation on the spot (later, Billotte refused to accept...
...Rouen, 400 young reservists recalled to duty for service in North Africa mutinied as they were about to be loaded on trucks for shipment to Morocco. They locked their officers in the barracks kitchen, stood off police for 24 hours. Crowds of sympathetic workers, egged on by Communist leaders, hurled stones and even gasoline bombs at the police...