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...attempt at appeasement, it encouraged his enemies, alienated his supporters. His own Defense Minister dared to oppose him; generals defied his wishes. His new Resident General, the colonists' candidate, General Boyer de Latour, carried out Faure's orders only as he saw fit. Rather than institute the three-man regency council that Faure had proposed, De Latour let Sultan Moulay Ben Arafa delegate his powers to a cousin. "Whom does General de Latour obey-your government or Marshal Juin or [Defense Minister] Koenig?" demanded the Socialists...
...Morocco, 600 angry colons demonstrated against Deputy Resident General François de Panafieu because he had pressed De Latour to implement Faure's program for a three-man regency council. To placate them, De Panafieu offered his resignation on the spot (later, Billotte refused to accept...
...crown." The nationalists were not pleased. They knew little about Hand except that he is a stout, 50-year-old man working in a government office in Rabat. The government was obviously embarrassed, insisted that Hand's appointment would not "exclude" Faure's plan for a three-man Regency Council...
...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...
...ostensible snag was merely the selection of a third "neutral" member of the three-man regency council. Faure picked Brigadier General Si Kettani ben Hamou. Kettani declined to accept until he consulted Juin and Brigadier General Jean Lecomte, Koenig's chief of staff, and an old North African friend of Juin's. Lecomte told General Kettani to refuse Faure's appointment...