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Private Life: Wife, Cécile Bonnefoy; two sons, Pierre, 22, second lieutenant in a Moroccan rifle regiment (and also a St. Cyr graduate), and Michel, 13. Fond of cigars, bridge, music-hall ditties, dancing (but no jitterbugging...
World War I: A lieutenant in the Moroccan Division on the Western Front. Cited in dispatches five times, decorated on the field of battle, twice wounded. His right arm was so crippled that it became almost useless, forcing General Juin to salute, as he still does, with his left hand...
...country's army. In 1947 appointed Resident-General in Morocco, where a nationalist movement threatened French rule. "Morocco," he said, "has a right to be independent. But independence must wait until Morocco is ready." Applied a policy of military firmness to assure French control. He stuck with the Moroccan job after Eisenhower picked him for NATO, explaining, "I'd like to have things in order before I leave." Now he feels ready for the new post...
...five years the French have had some of their best fighting forces (including paratroopers, airmen, Moroccan infantrymen) tied up in Indo-China, fighting Reds. But only 40,000 Indo-Chinese volunteers are fighting alongside the French. Last week, prodded by French Commander General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Viet Nam's Chief of State Bao Dai moved at last to bring the entire country into the war against the Communists. Bao Dai ordered full mobilization of all men between 18 and 60. First draft call: 60,000, beginning Oct. 16. Ultimate goal: a national Viet Nam army...
...Hour after hour, French army planes circled Morocco's barren Atlas Mountains. Turbaned goumiers, the fierce Moroccan troops, scrambled through narrow ravines and over rocky ridges. Gendarmes followed police dogs straining for a scent over the mountain passes. In all, some 12,000 hunters were combing the hills for a rifle-toting tribesman who in one week had murdered seven people, wounded two others...