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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14
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aly: mi" Rphek
, 66; hero of two world wars, and now
a) ATO land commander. in’ Europe.
. ‘Others inchided. Defense’ Minister Gen.
Pierre Koenig! ind Gen. Jean, Lecomte, ;
Ee “Koenig's chief ot staff,
coe Esl dast : August, they . “assigned?
- Gen © Raymond |. Duval, then . mili-
tary ¢ mmander of | Morocco, ° to! “get”
“the Siewly appointed résident-general.
Gilbert Grandval, a civilian and avowed
advocate of compromise. Duval was
- killed in a plane crash in’ Moroceo fast
August. But he already had done much
‘ta obstruct the government's reforms,
Stulnge Theht:
and Gen. Boyer de Latour, a career mili-
tary man, installed in his place, the gen-
erals turned to another key element in
Fuure’s program-the departure of the
wntnationalist, Sultan, Mohammed ben
Moulay Arafa and substitution of a re-
geney council, Gen, Pierre de Benouville.
at right-wing deputy, was dispatched to
-, Rabat to urge the Sultan to sit tight.
‘Benouville was followed by former Air
_ Minister Pierre Montel, chainnan of the
With Grandyal out.
“grades
parliamentary defense committee. He —
flew to Morocco ostensibly to inspect the
military situation, but quickly turned to ~~
Last «
* week, Faure ordered cance lation of his”
military transportation’. | |
The generals turned next to the pro:
politicking in support of ben Arafa.
“posed regency council, Negotiations had
“and last regent. Faure proposed: Gen. Si
-Kettani_ ben ‘Hammon, ‘only Moroccan |
a ~ general in the French Amy, now serving’
“* in’ Germany. He literally begged him_ to’
“take ‘the job, But the Premier had over-
turned down the post...
"The generals’ _Pisgest. coup. camé last
so" “The case of the missing iphone was
"as The a fh sing ois was
7 wn The TI case case wis fo Americans. Last |
onald
“week, Tour years our years of doubt about
- Maclean and Guy Burgess exp!
woe Jooked one important - ~factor:. Kettani’s '
2° top’ superior is “Marshal Juin. Kettani,
ta
~-eried:
s Non!, What t fol
Kuropean
Juin: Morocco for Frenchmen
‘
‘Wednesday in. Paris, After three days of . .
“consultation with the Cabinet (and Juin), |
Moreceo ‘hot with new: instructions but:
“swith authority to make his own ‘decisions. -
De Latour so far has shown no desire to’
‘buck. the die-hard. generals, in fact, has
‘urged Faure to‘ go. slow’ on: reforms.
“;. As the Moroccan morass deepened, ~
vy iresh disorders swept both Morocco and
* Algeria. The Paris newspaper Le Figaro.
“What absurdity! What aberta-
_ burst, of public ind fad ignation, that_forced --
thes
Saeed ener eames
oviet spies.
“Voth i im 7" were
government cnt to break its long silence -
"With a 1 eight-page. White Paper, For
” the hr tn time atfcial London “conceded
But ihe White Paper's attempts to jus- ©
tify the handling of the case raised fresh
* doubts and_ fears. It suggested, for ex-
- ample, that Maclean and Burgess ‘fled
because Maclean liad been tipped off he
was under suspicion. But it dodged the
‘question_of whether a “third man” was
still at_work in the Foreign Off Office.
_.. “An insult to any reasonable man’s ine
; _ telligence,” said Lord Beaverbrook’s Lon- .
at. Beta te nan site Sie te
* Black Mtar
Eden: Why the uproar?
_ ~ Resident-Ceneral de Latour returned to |
“deadlocked ‘over. selection “ofthe third
an _ errors of judgment of some
Gusher =
From Haute sinqitt, ‘a low. barren hi
barely 6 miles from the Eyy ptian-he
Gaza strip. a black gusher shot 40 fe
into the shy. [Israel had) struck oil,
‘The well, brought in fast week by t
Lapidot-[sract Petrolenm Ca, Ltd. ¢
per cent) Americnvowned), lad bed
‘started by the Britisheowned Iraq PB
tralemn Coe. and abandoned when t
Arab-[sracli war broke out in 1947. Of
-men believed they had fotnd a maj
field, For tsracl, the discovery held tl
promise of casing a yearly burden of $
million in petroleum jnyports, and of gd
ting the huge Haifa refinery, now cri
pled by the Arab boycutt, back to f
production. [t also made the Israc
more adamant (han ever against any be
der revisions as the price of a peace s
tlement with their Arab neighbors.
‘
FRANCE:
Strike Fever
_ “IE we succeed in maintaining t
present rhythm of progression, the star
‘ard of living will double in ten yea
Premier Edgar Faure told France |
_ week. It should have been a boast; é
stead, it was an appeal. Even as.
« spoke,* Faure's goal of. “expansion
: tgtability”. was threatened by nation
“demands for more’ wage hikes that &
: bring only more inflation.
os Already 200,000 Frenchmen were
“full. or part-time strike, mostly shipy
‘construction, and metal. workers, “a
‘mostly’. members‘ of the Communi
_controlled General Conféderation of
* bor. In Nantes, strikers and police stag
oo Vy * Bowe se we.
don Daily Express of the White: ‘Pap De
“explanation of how Maclean and Burge
_had been allowed to rise to sensitive fp
~ sitions—and then escape. Prime Minist
_Sir_Anthony Eden, who had n Fa
"eign, Secretary, ‘through 43 months:
“silence about the scandal, braced for
~ fulleseale: debate after Parffamen
“convenes In October.
. Newsween’s’ Edward Weintal, lo
personally acquainted with the Mactea
fends this hac ground:
The Foreign Office never chad ay
oubt Maclean was spying.
to conceal the true reason for ina fe mer
<lBappesraics Because of (1) a un
_ten law in Britain's services which p
“tects those who belong and_(2);
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