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...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...
France's dramatic walkout at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday may prove damaging both to the French position and the the prestige of the Free World itself. Coming at a time when the thorny Moroccan crisis seemed to be approaching a final settlement and when French economic readjustment was achieving measurable success, the boycott reflects the obdurate refusal to compromise or consider the position of the other side that has always been so much a part of France's political character...
Back from Madagascar. General C-troux's mission was to win Ben Youssef's approval for Premier Edgar Faure's ingenious plan to settle the Moroccan crisis (TIME, Sept. 5). The French propose to depose the present puppet Sultan. Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, but not to restore Ben Youssef, who would, however, be able to leave Madagascar and live more luxuriously in France...
...next move was up to Premier Faure, who had promised a "solution" by Sept. 12. At week's end, he announced what he had in mind: once the old and new Sul tans had been replaced by a three-man regency council, a Moroccan government with control over most of Morocco's internal affairs would be set up in Rabat. This new regime would negotiate a new political link with France, revising the obsolete protectorate treaty...
World War II: Commanded a Moroccan troop in France, was wounded when the Germans broke the Maginot line. De Latour escaped to North Africa, raised levies among the Berber tribes, led them in Allied landings on Corsica and Elba. In 1946 he was promoted to brigadier general...