Word: latour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the crippling frost of 1956 destroyed the vines of tens of thousands of acres, the French wine industry has staggered under the blows of poor quality and decreased quantity. The quality of this year's vintage is matched only by its quality. Jean Latour, producer of the rare white Burgundy, Croton-Charlemagne. says that in this century there has never been a year as abundant or as good. In the Romanée-Conti vineyards, the wine-men say that God waited until Archbishop Roncalli (who blessed the fields after the war, when he was papal nuncio...
...Obeys Whom? Like any attempt at appeasement, it encouraged his enemies, alienated his supporters. His own Defense Minister dared to oppose him; generals defied his wishes. His new Resident General, the colonists' candidate, General Boyer de Latour, carried out Faure's orders only as he saw fit. Rather than institute the three-man regency council that Faure had proposed, De Latour let Sultan Moulay Ben Arafa delegate his powers to a cousin. "Whom does General de Latour obey-your government or Marshal Juin or [Defense Minister] Koenig?" demanded the Socialists...
...Defense Minister retired General Pierre Billotte, a member of the so-called "dissident Gaullists." Billotte's first order was a stern warning to defiant French generals henceforth, "every French soldier, regardless of rank, will do his duty." Then Billotte hastened to Morocco, with orders to hustle De Latour into doing what Faure had already told him to do- form a regency council...
...Morocco, 600 angry colons demonstrated against Deputy Resident General François de Panafieu because he had pressed De Latour to implement Faure's program for a three-man regency council. To placate them, De Panafieu offered his resignation on the spot (later, Billotte refused to accept...
...airport, the old man's lips quivered as Resident General de Latour pronounced the incantatory words of political exorcism over his head: a letter from President René Coty praising "the high nobility of the sentiments which once again guide Your Majesty in the serious decision you have been pleased to take." Ben Moulay Arafa scarcely listened, laboriously climbed aboard the waiting plane. An hour later, the plane landed at Tangier, where Ben Moulay Arafa will live at French expense in a hastily rehabilitated villa which once belonged to another throneless Sultan of Morocco...