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...Foreign Minister of France was outraged. "The decision you are about to make," said Antoine Pinay to the U.N.'s General Assembly, "is more serious for the United Nations than for France, for the whole future of our organization is at stake...
Tomorrow's Consequence. Trembling with anger, dapper Antoine Pinay climbed back to the Assembly rostrum. "Twice I have warned the Assembly of the consequences of a violation of the Charter. An assault of passion and demagogy has led the Assembly to disregard the recommendations of its General Committee . . . My government refuses to accept any intervention of the U.N. . . . My government will consider as null and void any recommendation which the Assembly might make in this connection...
...Pinay paused. "I must add . . . that I do not know what will be the consequence tomorrow of this vote." Pinay walked stiffly back to France's place on the Assembly floor, gathered up his papers and his aides, and led them silently out of the United Nations...
From Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Pinay telephoned Paris to report his action to Premier Edgar Faure. "You did the right thing by walking out," said Faure. He gave Pinay fresh orders, and next day they were carried out: Pinay and his staff flew home. There, to show France's anger at the Soviet vote in the Assembly, Faure and Pinay immediately agreed to postpone their scheduled visit to Russia. The Cabinet decided to keep its delegation out of the Assembly session, but not quit the U.N. entirely...
...much of last week, France's reputation abroad and the fate of its government at home rested in the shaky hands of a hesitant old man-Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. All week long, Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay telephoned anxiously from Manhattan, in hopes of favorable news to influence the U.N. Assembly vote on the Algerian situation. From Paris, Premier Edgar Faure telephoned urgently to Morocco's Resident General Boyer de Latour; unless Ben Moulay Arafa had "voluntarily" departed before the National Assembly met this week, the Faure government was doomed...