Word: morocco
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...malevolence of Radio Egypt is shocking. The French have radio transmitters all over Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco; why are Britain and France sitting around like simple ninnies sucking their thumbs? I am no expert, but I have had some slight contact with these matters; it does not require a decision in Parliament to overpower a malicious radio transmitter...
...Morocco's Sultan ben Youssef, Mohammed V, only 31 months ago exiled by the French to remote Madagascar, was being courted like a king. At Rabat airport last week, as he stepped aboard an Iberia Super-Constellation for a visit to Spain, a band played the Marseillaise, and French High Commissioner Andre Louis Dubois was at his side to remind him that Morocco owed its new "independence within interdependence" to France. Hours later in Madrid, Dictator Franco and a phalanx of bemedaled Falangists roared an ovation to show that they also had something to give the Sultan...
Along the Arab-Israeli border, gangs of workers went on shoveling ditches for pipes to water new fields in the Negev, while soldiers dug out gun emplacements, trenches and foxholes. Troops joined with raw settlers from Morocco and Kurdistan to turn farm communities into flimsy fortresses. In Tel Aviv thousands of white-collar workers left their desks and went to the borders to help dig defenses. At the annual convention of the powerful Israeli General Federation of Labor (Histadrut), there were no ringing calls to arms in the labor leaders' speeches. "I prefer even this miserable peace to either...
...Nationalist Leader Habib Bourguiba back from Paris. In his pocket, the triumphant Neo-Destour party leader carried a protocol, in which the French government officially recognized his nation's independence. But even this triumph was not enough. "It is inconceivable," said Bourguiba, "that Tunisia on one side and Morocco on the other should enjoy independence while Algeria, which lies between them, remains under the colonialist yoke...
...Morocco Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef agreed at last to go to Spain to discuss freedom for Spanish Morocco. Franco is reportedly ready to hand over the Spanish zone in exchange for Spain's continued right to maintain its military bases there. Spanish government propagandists, busily preparing public opinion for the loss of its protectorate in North Africa, were still trying to pose as the friend of the Arabs. "We went there to fulfill a protective mission," said one release, "not solicited by us, but placed upon us by international agreements...