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Blood & Billions. General Alphonse-Pierre Juin, inspector-general of the French army, had been dispatched to Washington to plead France's case. The French were frankly alarmed. General de Lattre de Tassigny, the leader on whom France, and France's friends, had counted, was out of the battle (see below). The guerrilla warfare the French had been fighting since 1946 had already cost more casualties than those suffered by the U.S. in Korea-including the equivalent of three entire classes from St. Cyr, France's West Point, and ten sons of French generals. It had also cost...
About to take over as Commander in Chief of all SHAPE'S armies in Germany, France and the Low Countries: France's five-star General of the Army Alphonse-Henri Juin...
World War I: A lieutenant in the Moroccan Division on the Western Front. Cited in dispatches five times, decorated on the field of battle, twice wounded. His right arm was so crippled that it became almost useless, forcing General Juin to salute, as he still does, with his left hand...
Summoned to Paris, Juin stepped off the plane at Orly Field with the remark: "All is calm in Morocco." Outside Morocco, the Moslem world was in an uproar. Juin's strict press censorship encouraged wild rumors. An Egyptian newspaper reported that Fez had been bombed, sacred mosques destroyed. Diplomatic notes began pouring into the French Foreign Ministry from the Moslem countries...
...quiet the uproar, General Juin last week postponed taking over his command of the Western European land forces under General Dwight Eisenhower at SHAPE. Juin, planning to fly back to Morocco, was still confident that he could bring the Sultan around, hold Morocco for France, avoid a national insurrection which would be a danger to the Atlantic pact. The dialogue would continue...