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Angry Cabinet. Violence in North Africa was matched by unseemly vacillation in Paris. Fumbling for a political solution to Morocco's dynastic question, Premier Edgar Faure presided at a bitter twelve-hour Cabinet session-the longest anyone in Paris could remember. Faure asked the conservatives in his right-center coalition to accept the "double dismissal plan" he had worked out with Morocco's leaders (TIME, Sept. 5). The hardest man to convince was Faure's own Foreign Minister, Antoine Pinay, whose right-wing Independents are strongly influenced by the pro-colon lobby in the French National Assembly...
...politicians hoped that the French punitive expeditions had already broken the back of the Arab revolt; yet last week the killings went on. In Morocco, nationalist saboteurs burned French gasoline dumps; in Algeria, rebel bands fought a four-hour battle with the Foreign Legion, and 54 died. Even in relatively tranquil Tunisia, 23 rebels and eleven Frenchmen were killed in a sudden outbreak. Total casualties in North Africa since Aug. 20: close to 3,000 dead, thousands more wounded...
...member of the moderate Left, might compel the right-wing parties to form their own government. This in turn would probably consolidate the non-Communist Left (Socialists, left-wing Catholics, some Radicals) against them in a coalition led by ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France. Whatever happens in Morocco, or anywhere else, the right-wingers are determined to keep energetic little Mendès from climbing back to power. The right-wing game is to use Faure (a fellow Radical of Mendès, and once his Finance Minister) to hold off Mendès. Faure, of course, understanding...
...Replace Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, the puppet Sultan whom the French installed in Morocco two years ago, with a three-man regency council. Its senior member: El Mokri, 108, Morocco's feeble old Grand Vizier...
Spontaneous Evaporation. Landing at Rabat a few hours after Grandval had been ousted, the new French Resident General, General de Latour, took up his command in Morocco. He went to the Sultan's palace to present his respects to the man he had come to fire, Ben Moulay Arafa. Bands played, and the Sultan's honor guard shuffled to attention as the lean Frenchman climbed the stairs to the throne room where Arafa sat waiting. "Everyone desires to see the spirit of friendship reign," said De Latour, looking uncomfortable. Replied the Sultan, peering uneasily: "We would be happy...