Word: sartout
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...founded as a crusading newspaper, but to cash in on Morocco's postwar boom. In its early days Maroc-Presse, like its competitors, rarely criticized the ironhanded suppres sion of nationalism by Resident General Alphonse Tuin. But in 1953, Maroc-Presse's Editorial Director Henri Sartout decided that France could no longer rule Morocco by force, should instead give the natives a voice in government, and thus win their support. The attack on the paper began at once. French business men pulled out their advertising, and Maroc-Presse's circulation fell sharply...
Bomb on the Balcony. As Sartout got more and more involved in politics, the job of running the paper fell to Mazzella, who was born in Oran, was a war cor respondent with the French army in Italy and the U.S. 9th Armored Division. On Mazzella, the French vigilantes centered their attacks. Shortly after he published an editorial trying to explain the political reasons for Moorish terrorism, a bomb was exploded on the balcony of his second-floor apartment. Next day his mail brought a warning from the French vigilantes: "That was just the beginning." Two months later, a friend...
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