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Faure could read little but hostility in the faces confronting him. The Socialists, who a few days before had saved him by approving his Moroccan policy, did not think his Algerian reforms went far enough. The right-wingers thought they went too far. Most hostile of all were the Gaullists, nominally a part of his majority; they "liked his policy but not his government...
Faure was not deceived. Shaking his fist at the Gaullists, he accused them of trying to overthrow him at all costs. "Your game is crystal-clear. You want to prevent me from applying my Moroccan policy endorsed last Sunday," he cried. Privately, the Gaullists admitted the truth of the charge. At last Faure wearily posed the Algerian program as a vote of confidence in himself, and set the vote for early this week. Quipped a left-wing Deputy: "There is a pleasant graveyard smell here...
...Backbench Deputies besieged their leaders, urging them to desert the government. They had differing reasons, but a single fear: if this government was blamed for "losing North Africa," they stood to lose their seats in next year's elections. The dissident Gaullists caucused and demanded that Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs Pierre July resign. July refused. Then, the Independents voted for the withdrawal of Foreign Minister Pinay and the Independents' two other Cabinet members...
...besiegers cut roads, demolished bridges, held up French relief columns for six days before melting back into the hills. The attackers were highly organized, well armed, and skillfully directed by uniformed officers. The French bitterly charged that they were directed from Cairo (where Egypt gives sympathetic asylum to exiled Moroccan leaders), trained and harbored in Spanish Morocco...
...went to Italy and drenched himself in Renaissance art; another winter he spent living in a peasant's house on Elba, and worked directly from nature. When his money ran out, he went to Casablanca, signed up as a paint spray-gun operator, working side by side with Moroccan laborers at U.S. air bases. Back in Paris with money in his pocket, he found himself elected chairman of a group of fellow Left-Bank expatriates who staged their own exhibition when French sponsors backed out (TIME...