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...satisfied with winning their independence from France and Spain a year ago, some of Morocco's political leaders are agitating to chip off a slice of northwest Africa roughly the size of Western Europe. The land between Morocco and Senegal is mostly sand, but there are underground riches to be tapped. For the story of the rebel leader who hates the French because he was once denied a tax collector's job, see FOREIGN NEWS, Empire of Sand...
...case in point: the inchoate Republic of Indonesia, which cannot govern itself but claims half of New Guinea. Another: Egypt, which had hardly said goodbye to the British before it was reaching out for the Sudan. But these claims hardly match those of the new Sherman Empire of Morocco, which until a year ago was a part-French, part-Spanish protectorate. Fanatical Moroccan nationalists have staked out a claim to a slice of northwest Africa roughly equal in area to Western Europe. Last week they were fighting...
Commissioned by the President to make an eight-nation, 18,000-mile goodwill trip across newly stirring Africa, Ike's No. 1 roving ambassador had landed at Rabat, Morocco's capital, a day earlier, and at once plunged into the person-to-person, handshake-and-smile campaign with which-on five previous overseas missions-he had won new friends for the U.S. from Manila to Guatemala. And already the trip was showing a policy profit. In private talks with Mohammed V, Sultan of Morocco, during which the two leaders discussed the future of U.S. bases in the country...
...cost them dear in oil revenues. The Arab Kings have always resented Nasser's implied threat to reach over their heads to the street mobs in their own countries, have become increasingly aware that Nasser has exploited Arab nationalism primarily for Egypt. The new rulers of Tunisia, Morocco and Libya, the young King of Jordan, the new pro-Western government of Lebanon, though all making noises of Arab unity, resent Nasser's dominance...
...hero who had bamboozled the Western colonialists. His Voice of the Arabs grew increasingly shrill, demanding the blood of every Western imperialist, sowing hatred for the French throughout North Africa. He sent arms to Algerian rebels, fomented terrorism against those Arabs who would cooperate with the French in Morocco and Tunisia, offered hospitality to exiled leaders in Cairo...