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...France in a position of inferiority." Herriot's specific objections: 1) under articles 12 and 13, the Germans, and all other nations, could withdraw troops from the joint army on the pretext of putting down domestic disturbances, while if France wanted to withdraw troops to send them to Morocco or Tunisia, she would have to ask permission of the European Command "like a minor"; 2) Article I: gives Germany the right to have a militia, like the paramilitary formations that were the nucleus of Hitler's army; 3) Britain is not a party to the treaty. Said Herriot...
Moslem sovereigns, the Bey of Tunis (1881) and the Sultan of Morocco (1912). Last week the French cabinet decided that it would "accept no [outside] interference in these questions which relate essentially to the national competence of France...
...Morocco (pop. 959,000): an area somewhat larger than California. Like Tunisia, Morocco is not a member of the French Union and continues to be administered by a French Resident-General. The French community has three representatives in the French Council...
...which they regard as their home. Americans on the scene frequently accuse the settlers of being more narrow, repressive and intransigent than the French government. Marshal Alphonse Juin, commander of the NATO ground forces in Europe, was born at Bone in Algeria. Last week Juin (onetime Resident-General of Morocco, 1947-51) strongly attacked the U.S.'s wavering attitude. "There was nothing to get excited about so long as our opponents were only the Arab bloc, bound together by Moslem solidarity, and the U.S.S.R. with her satellites . . . but today we are seriously threatened with the possibility of seeing...
...African-Asian countries were prepared to insist that the Tunisian nationalists be heard. The French felt that they were being put on trial before the world largely by a collection of backward, undemocratic states whose plumbing, politics and sense of public order are far worse than those of Morocco or Tunisia. The U.S., divided between its desire to please an ally and its sentimental aversion to the old fighting word "colonialism," was in a tough spot...