FRENCH ACTIONS CRITICISED

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27125, 22 August 1953, Page 7

FRENCH ACTIONS CRITICISED

PRESS COMMENT IN BRITAIN

(Rec. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 20. Two London weekly newspapers, the “Spectator” and the “New Statesman and Nation,” today strongly attacked the French--action in Morocco. The “Spectator” said that Pans could not evade its responsibilities much longer in Morocco. “As long as colonial officials are free to act on their own initiative in the interest of local pressure groups of settlers and businessmen, the situation will degenerate as the Tunisian situation has already done. The whole question raises the problem of North African policy-mak-ing in an acute form.” „ The “New Statesman and Nation said that France would pay heavily for what it called the madness of recent events in Morocco. It attacked Marshal Alphone Juin, the vice-chairman of the Supreme Council of the French armed forces, and General Augustin Guillaume, Resi-dent-General in Morocco, for acting on behalf of French business and colonial interests. “They have now made any co-opera-iton between the French and„ the Moroccan nationalists impossible.

British Chess Champion.—A 28;yearold Canadian, D. A. Yanofsky is the new British chess champion. He won the title—the first Canadian ever to do so—at the British Chess Confess at Hastings today.—London, August 20.