Word: grandval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colons, whose remedy is simple repression. Moderate men on both sides had been ready to compromise, but violence drowned their voices and left the field to extremists. Faure's way out was characteristic of the balancing French politician: to adopt the moderate recommendations of courageous Resident General Gilbert Grandval, while sacrificing Grandval himself to the wolves. At week's end there was prospect of a patched-up compromise. It promised to settle the question of who should be Sultan of Morocco by having no Sultan at all. Much depended on the timing, for if either Grandval...
...Paris arrested the man suspected of organizing the White Terror. He proved to be Chief Inspector Jean Delrieu, formerly head of the Casablanca police department charged with combatting Arab terrorism. Faure called a Cabinet meeting, then put in a call to the Saar. He wanted to speak to Gilbert Grandval...
Then came La Date Fatidique (Aug. 20), and the massacre of Oued Zem. Too late, the French government realized that Grandval had been right. The bloodshed he had tried to forestall now was a fact, and would be avenged. Only the faith Istiqlal leaders had in Grandval kept the violence in the hills from spreading to the big cities...
...impassioned colons, however, Gilbert Grandval was to blame. Grandval had bargained with the Moroccans, the Moroccans committed the murders. Therefore, Grandval was an accomplice, ran the colon argument. Their passions burst forth one day last week at an elaborate military funeral held in Rabat. The funeral was for tough-minded French General Raymond Duval. whose light plane crashed in the Atlas foothills during the operations against the Berbers. Because Duval had opposed Grandval's policies, the fantastic rumor spread that the Resident had sabotaged the general's plane...
...before the fighting broke out, Grandval had rushed back to Morocco from Paris with a special invitation to the nationalist leaders, asking them to meet with the French Cabinet to work out a compomise. Because Grandval had won their trust, most nationalist leaders accepted this last-minute offer. But though the moderates in Morocco urged calm on their impatient people, the extremists would not be stayed. As so often before, the French concessions came too late...