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Though most Deputies believe passionately that North Africa must be held at all costs if France is to remain a big power, those who favor holding it by savage repression were on the defensive. The Casablanca murder of Publisher Lemaigre-Dubreuil in Morocco (TIME, June 27), a Frenchman killed by other Frenchmen for being moderate, had stirred all France. Premier Faure seized his chance. His government, said Faure, "will never agree to renounce, palter with, or open to question the French position in Morocco." But there must be a new policy for Morocco and a new man to implement...
Faure also grimly told the Assembly that the complicity of local police in counterterrorist crimes in Morocco has been "clearly established,"" that four policemen, including a brigadier police chief, have been arrested, and "we are in the presence of a complete counterterrorist organization, to which dozens of outrages can be attributed." In Casablanca, suspects were hustled to police headquarters with paper bags over their heads to conceal their identities. Members of the gang had reportedly confessed to participating in 80 "incidents," including the burning of an Arab market, the murder of several Arab farmers, and bomb attacks on local Frenchmen...
...second French argument is that any oversimplified solution, any sudden and total "liberation," would not resolve the .immense problems of North Africa. The departure of the French would inevitably precipitate chaos. The French minority of North Africa-1,000,000 in Algeria, 270,000 in Tunisia, 360,000 in Morocco-have contributed a share in the economic and cultural development of the country which is disproportionate to their numbers. In general, farming methods are more modern and profits are higher on lands cultivated by French colons. Emigration of Frenchmen might precipitate the collapse of the country's resources...
...months the French government in Paris has been guilty of an immobilisme in Morocco, hoping that the new treaty with neighboring Tunisia (which gives the Arabs some hope of self-government) would in time prove a model for Morocco. Now the Lemaigre murder has shocked into silence even advocates of strong-arm repression like Marshal Juin. Action is long overdue, unless France is to see Morocco go the way of Indo-China...
Unwelcome Lion. Symptomatic was the story of Pierre Clostermann. France's leading fighter pilot in World War II, a national hero and a Deputy in the National Assembly, Clostermann was a social lion when he first moved to Morocco five years ago to establish a structural-steel concern. Urged on by President Auriol himself, Clostermann befriended Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, and advocated a "dialogue" between Moroccans and French. He fought those who engineered Ben Youssef's deposition and replacement with the pitiful French stooge Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. Soon Clostermann was cut out of French...