In December 1941, as permanent secretary to the Council of Defense of the Empire, he had travelled from Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt to Indochina and the Cameroons to collect information on support for the French Republic in these territories. In the late 1950s, Cassin, now vice-president of France's Conseil d'État, authorised emergency powers to combat anticolonial resistance in Algeria.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 868