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...issue was Premier Edgar Faure's desperate attempt to provide a policy for rebellious Morocco. Two weeks ago, his Cabinet had announced agreement on a program of which the chief features were removal of Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa and his replacement by a three-man regency council. President Coty himself sent a letter to the Resident General, Lieut. General Pierre Boyer de Latour, for delivery to Arafa; a French destroyer stood by to carry the aged Sultan to sanctuary in Tangier...
...Hurry. It is easy to read a plot into some of Nasser's recent moves. Cairo's Voice of the Arabs radio pours a stream of anti-French propaganda into Morocco, and Nasser gives warm asylum to old Riff Rebel Abd el Krim, a key North African troublemaker, as well as to Jerusalem's Jew-hating Mufti. In the Gaza strip he allows, if he does not approve, the arming and training of the Al Fedayeen commandos, teams of Palestine Arab refugees which periodically cross the border to raid Israel. At the Bandung Conference last April, where...
...Premier Faure, who had promised a "solution" by Sept. 12. At week's end, he announced what he had in mind: once the old and new Sul tans had been replaced by a three-man regency council, a Moroccan government with control over most of Morocco's internal affairs would be set up in Rabat. This new regime would negotiate a new political link with France, revising the obsolete protectorate treaty...
...arrangement would set Morocco on the way to what Paris called "independence within interdependence." It was not freedom, and it might not last, but it was an improvement...
...hundred French air force reservists, recalled for service in Morocco, refused to board a southward-bound troop train at the Gare de Lyon in Paris this week. "Leave Morocco to the Moroccans," the airmen shouted. "We don't want to go." Unable to push them into the coaches, police finally rounded them all up and drove them back to their barracks...