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Before the roundup was over, a phone jangled furiously in the Rabat bedroom of André Dubois, France's tall, elegant Ambassador to Morocco. When Dubois picked up the receiver a Frenchman serving with the Moroccan police excitedly reported that the newly independent Moroccan government was rounding up more than 50 members and alleged sympathizers of Présence Française, the organization of diehard colons who cannot reconcile themselves to Moroccan independence. A week earlier Moroccan police had discovered that Présence Française was circulating leaflets which urged Morocco's Berber minority...
...bluest chips. But this was not the real basis of the French reaction. The nation is deep in a costly and frustrating struggle in Algeria, and chief aider and abettor of the rebels is Dictator Nasser. When Premier Guy Mollet ordered two-thirds of the French navy and a Moroccan division to be ready "to impose" a solution in the Suez, one Parisian growled: "Well worth it. We'd be cutting the serpent's head instead of hacking off its tail...
...Cairo, in the wake of a rash of ceremonies celebrating Egypt's freedom from foreign troops, the newly brassbound Chief of Staff of the brand-new Moroccan army, moonfaced Mouldy Hassan, 28 (whose new rank is explained by his competence and his nearness to Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Yousef, his father), got off a neat bit of guidance for neutrals being courted by two worlds. Said he: "We are Moslems and have the right to be bigamists. We can marry both the East and the West, and remain faithful to our spouses...
...military quicksands of Algeria, the French army struggled a few steps forward. Five thousand troops last week swung a long dragnet out from the Moroccan border, began inching northward toward the sea, where ten warships waited for the advance to flush out fleeing rebels. In the Kabylie area, some 210 villages once controlled by the rebels offered their submission. But in Paris, Socialist Finance Minister Paul Ramadier announced gloomily that the North African war was costing a billion francs ($2,850,000) a day-as much as the Indo-China war took at its peak, and without any U.S. help...
...western Algeria, near the Moroccan border, the rebels launched coordinated attacks on the rich, winegrowing plains between the mountains and the coasts. In one night, rebel bands attacked 46 big French farms, burned buildings to the ground, slaughtered 17 Europeans and 23 Moslems. In the east, rebels attacked 40 villages along the mountainous coast, hurling hand grenades and gasoline bombs. At week's end, rebel suicide squads broke into Constantine (pop. 118,000) at noon, fought a running gun battle with French troops through the streets, and bombed a Jewish cafe in the city's center...