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...other hand, the Arab-Asian nations, blandly encouraged by the Soviet bloc, had picked a most sensitive and questionable case in which to pit their whim against the loosely worded U.N. Charter prohibition against meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations. Unlike Morocco, a protectorate, Algeria is, in French eyes, at least as much a part of France as Alaska is part of the U.S. This much of the French case the U.S. supported when it voted with France against any U.N. debate...
...much of last week, France's reputation abroad and the fate of its government at home rested in the shaky hands of a hesitant old man-Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. All week long, Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay telephoned anxiously from Manhattan, in hopes of favorable news to influence the U.N. Assembly vote on the Algerian situation. From Paris, Premier Edgar Faure telephoned urgently to Morocco's Resident General Boyer de Latour; unless Ben Moulay Arafa had "voluntarily" departed before the National Assembly met this week, the Faure government was doomed...
...serious decision you have been pleased to take." Ben Moulay Arafa scarcely listened, laboriously climbed aboard the waiting plane. An hour later, the plane landed at Tangier, where Ben Moulay Arafa will live at French expense in a hastily rehabilitated villa which once belonged to another throneless Sultan of Morocco...
...been consulted on the wording, and President Coty's letter was withdrawn. The Defense Minister, retired Gaullist General Pierre Koenig, declared his opposition to the whole plan. Deputies demonstrated in the Assembly, and Pierre Montel, chairman of the Assembly's Defense Committee, flew to Morocco to urge Sultan Arafa to refuse to leave the throne. Marshal Alphonse Juin, NATO's Central European commander and France's top military man, publicly denounced Faure's plan as "appeasement" and rallied other old North African veterans to his cause. Summoned to a Cabinet meeting, De Latour angrily stomped...
...with several excellent books to his name,* started out in Cape Town and crossed the Equator eight times in one year. U.S. Journalist John Gunther, who is running out of continents to get inside of (he has been Inside Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S.A.}, started in Morocco and toured Africa from "stem to stern, from top to bottom." All told, Gunther reckons, he traveled 40,000 miles in a year, visited 105 towns and "took notes on conversations with 1,503 people." Novelist Cloete confined his search to a single if vast theme: "To clarify our minds...