Word: augustine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argued. Lacoste at one point resigned, then was persuaded to reconsider. Finally Mollet compromised on a crash economic program of $70 million and the dispatch of 50,000 troops. These could be obtained without any special call-ups by robbing France's already skeletonized NATO forces. General Augustin Guillaume, chief of the French general staff, who as Morocco's Resident General dethroned Sultan Ben Youssef two years ago, resigned in protest. He was replaced by General Paul Ely, whose name to Frenchmen unfortunately calls up the last despairing days of Indo-China...
...past, France's native troops have written a proud record for gallantry and their devotion to France. The dashing Spahis helped liberate Paris. The Tirailleurs Algeriens (the troops in the small cement fortress) fought at Monte Cassino and in Indo-China. Barefooted, pillaging Moroccan Goumiers were General Augustin Guillaume's crack force in Italy. Altogether, 100,000 of France's 400,000 troops in North Africa are Moslems. Said a French lieutenant: "This is their country, and the rebels are their countrymen. How can we trust them? All we can do is pack them tight with French...
...Paris, Israeli Chief of Staff Major General Moshe Dayan talked with French Chief of Staff General Augustin Guillaume. There were emphatic denials, but their subject apparently was more Mystère jets for Israel...
...mission was official admission of what has long been recognized privately in Morocco-that French counterterrorists are operating with the indulgence and sometimes cooperation of the local French police. Counter-terrorism began about nine months ago soon after the arrival of gentle Francis Lacoste to succeed General Augustin Guillaume as Resident General. To suspicious French colons, Lacoste, after hard-boiled General Guillaume, smelled of negotiation and compromise, and they denounced the national government's policy as "treason." Clandestine French organizations sprang up, calling themselves "The White Hand," and "Agir" (to act). They were manned by hired killers imported from...
...once was in Indo-China, with results that eventually may be just as bad. For the past nine months, as a French resident put it recently, "Morocco has been living in an acute state of siege." Others called the ironhanded regime of the Resident General, Old Soldier Augustin Guillaume, a "police state," and even saw a prospect of civil...