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Listening to the right-wingers in his Cabinet talk. Faure suddenly lit on the answer. He had Grandval's head on a platter; why not use it to win his point? At week's end. Faure agreed to sack Grandval in return for the support of his right wing in accepting Grandval's plan...
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...