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...foreign refuges as various as Damascus and Switzerland-and carefully avoiding flights that might make an emergency landing on French soil-top leaders of Algeria's rebel National Liberation Front converged on the Moroccan city of Rabat. There, surrounded by Moroccan plainclothesmen, they sat down with representatives of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal Party and Tunisia's Neo-Destour to lay the groundwork for a formal conference in Tangier this week. Prime topic to be discussed at Tangier: prospects for formation of a North African federation composed of Morocco, Tunisia and an independent Algeria...
...against the French, but in the interest of seeing that events get no further out of hand. In informal backstage chats, U.S. diplomats show their support of Arab moderates. They hope the Rabat conferees will abandon any thought of establishing an Algerian government in exile-which Tunisia, and perhaps Morocco, would be forced to recognize; such a step, the U.S. is convinced, would drive France to break off all relations with them. But for the idea of a North African federation the U.S. has nothing but enthusiasm. In such a federation, linked to France by some kind of commonwealth arrangement...
...dominated by Negroes. Mauritania's pro-French Premier Si Moktar Ould Daddah promptly branded them "traitors," begged France not to judge his country by the doings of a few "wild men." Nevertheless, as both Rabat and Paris realized, the four defecting delegates had given Mohammed's Greater Morocco campaign its biggest propaganda boost yet. Morocco, which gained its independence two years ago without ever having its southern borders officially defined, claims a sizable part of the western Sahara, the remaining North African possessions of Spain, and all of the land and unexploited resources of Mauritania...
Another Step. Nor was this King Mohammed's only success last week. After secret negotiations in Portugal, Spain and Morocco announced that Spain would turn over to Mohammed the Southern Spanish Protectorate, the tiny wedge of territory between Morocco and the Spanish Sahara. The sparsely populated territory is all but worthless, and Spain had decided to give it up all of two years ago, but to Moroccans it was another triumph...
...judgments on occasion prove as hasty as his stopovers. In 1955's Inside Africa he predicted confidently that independence would not come soon to Morocco; less than a year after Inside Africa appeared on the bookstalls, Morocco was independent. The last 1951 edition of Inside U.S.A. perpetuates Stevenson Democrat Gunther's three-year-old thumbs-down verdict on Earl Warren (whom he had not met): "He will never set the world on fire or even make it smoke." In all his 35 years as a foreign-news specialist, Gunther has never learned a foreign language. His critics also...