Word: grandval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duval's funeral, muffled drums played the Death March. Officers bore his decorations on three cushions, and behind them walked Gilbert Grandval. The Resident General's face was blue with fatigue. Climbing to the rostrum, Grandval addressed himself to Duval's widow, sitting near by. "Madame . . ." he began, but a storm of voices from the 4,000 assembled colons drowned him: "Assassin!" "Dirty Jew!" "Get out!" Madame Duval got up to leave. A chaplain next to her pulled her back down. "If you go, blood will be spilled." Grandval finished his speech, but as he drove away...
Back in his residency, the proud Grandval broke down. "I have discovered the depths of human ignominy." he told one of his aides. Picking up the telephone, he called Premier Faure and. after two months in office, offered his resignation...
Head on the Table. Faure, the nimble master of political maneuver who had appointed Grandval. urged him to reconsider-but only halfheartedly. A worldly-wise French bureaucrat remarked that the Premier thought "it might not be a bad idea to have Grandval's head on the negotiation table." Shocked into action by the bloodletting, the Premier had summoned more than a hundred Moroccan notables to a conference at Aix-les-Bains and was now eagerly searching for an acceptable political solution...
Faure's solution was a rewrite of Gilbert Grandval's plan to solve the throne question. He proposed to 1) remove Moulay Arafa-thus pleasing the Nationalists. 2) maintain the ban on Ben Youssef-thus pleasing the French colons. A three-man regency council would take the Sultan's place, and alongside it would be formed a provisional Moroccan government, with representatives of all parties, including the still-outlawed Istiqlal...
Faure persuaded the Moroccans to accept the outlines of Grandval's plan. A bigger problem was to win the support of the French diehards-in Morocco and in France...