Word: latour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. All week long, Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay telephoned anxiously from Manhattan, in hopes of favorable news to influence the U.N. Assembly vote on the Algerian situation. From Paris, Premier Edgar Faure telephoned urgently to Morocco's Resident General Boyer de Latour; unless Ben Moulay Arafa had "voluntarily" departed before the National Assembly met this week, the Faure government was doomed...
...midweek, De Latour had worked out a compromise with the leaders of the Présence Française: Ben Moulay Arafa would leave, but turn over the royal seal, symbol of the Sultan's authority, not to the Regency Council but to a member of his own family. The old Sultan seemed ready to agree, but then balked. His chief adviser, Vizier Si Hadj Abder Raman el Hajou, had talked him into refusing any compromise at all. De Latour acted. At 4 one morning, police arrived at El Hajou's apartment in downtown...
...weeks ago, his Cabinet had announced agreement on a program of which the chief features were removal of Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa and his replacement by a three-man regency council. President Coty himself sent a letter to the Resident General, Lieut. General Pierre Boyer de Latour, for delivery to Arafa; a French destroyer stood by to carry the aged Sultan to sanctuary in Tangier...
...urge Sultan Arafa to refuse to leave the throne. Marshal Alphonse Juin, NATO's Central European commander and France's top military man, publicly denounced Faure's plan as "appeasement" and rallied other old North African veterans to his cause. Summoned to a Cabinet meeting, De Latour angrily stomped out, complaining that every time Minister of Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs Pierre July told him to do one thing, Minister for Veterans Raymond Triboulet warned him not to do it. De Latour was at liberty, Triboulet explained, to obey whichever Minister he considered his superior...
Over to Tangier. Convincing the other Sultan, Moulay Arafa, was a task for another French general, Pierre Georges Boyer de Latour, the new French Resident-General in Morocco. Last week De Latour called on the old man in his dazzling white palace at Rabat and delicately indicated that the time had come to leave...