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...hard-bitten French air force intelligence officers in North Africa it was the perfect chance to score a coup that might shorten Algeria's long and bloody war. Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco, with the unofficial blessing of Socialist Guy Mollet's government, had invited top Algerian rebel chieftains from their Cairo headquarters to Rabat to talk peace terms with him. Then they would fly to Tunis for discussions with moderate Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba. A daring plan occurred to the officers: Why not kidnap the Algerian rebels' high command in midair...
...sence Française, the organization of diehard colons who cannot reconcile themselves to Moroccan independence. A week earlier Moroccan police had discovered that Présence Française was circulating leaflets which urged Morocco's Berber minority to rebel against "Arab domination" and "the Arab Sultan." No one seriously believed that a handful of leaflets would succeed in inflaming the Berbers, who are fiercely loyal to Sultan Mohammed V. Nonetheless, the Moroccan government had decided to use "the Berber tract affair" as an excuse for mass deportation of French extremist leaders...
...angry protest. Dubois was not overly disturbed by the decision to deport the troublemaking colons. (One of the deportees, a former Présence Française president named Georges Causse, had been expelled from Morocco once before, by the French themselves, allowed to return by clemency of the Sultan.) The ambassador was, however, incensed at Si Bekkai's failure to live up to an agreement that the French embassy would be consulted on all matters involving French citizens. What seemed to outrage him most was the fact that the arrests were made in the dead of night. "Even...
...postwar army chief of staff, Juin ordered the repression of the first big Algerian rebellion in 1945 with a ruthless vigor that the French colonists still remember with admiration and the Algerians with bitterness. As Governor General of Morocco, his remedy for unrest was to propose the exile of Sultan Mohammed V. "Colonies are not made by virgins" was his motto. For years he had been the most stubborn opponent of all concessions, the loudest champion of the colonists' cherished contention that Algeria is a permanent part of France, the most violent critic of any suggestion of a separate...
...Cairo, in the wake of a rash of ceremonies celebrating Egypt's freedom from foreign troops, the newly brassbound Chief of Staff of the brand-new Moroccan army, moonfaced Mouldy Hassan, 28 (whose new rank is explained by his competence and his nearness to Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Yousef, his father), got off a neat bit of guidance for neutrals being courted by two worlds. Said he: "We are Moslems and have the right to be bigamists. We can marry both the East and the West, and remain faithful to our spouses...