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...elaborate a little on our policies. First let us look at Tunisia and Mo rocco. With these two countries the French government, animated by the liberal traditions for which France is justly famous, has concluded agreements . . . Henceforth the relationships between France, on the one hand, and Morocco and Tunisia on the other, will be freely negotiated as between sovereign equals . . . You have all heard that the people of the U.S. are "anticolonialist" by tradition. That is true and we are proud...
...rupture between the peoples that have newly acquired their freedom and those that have led them along the path to this freedom. Therefore it should come as no surprise when I say that the U.S. hopes for and favors the continuation of the closest possible interdependence between France and Morocco and Tunisia...
...achievements were few, but they underlined Nasser's aspiration to establish Egypt as the leader of a united Araby and even, if possible, over all Africa. His undeclared aim: to force the West out of the whole area. Nasser's radio, "Voice of the Arabs," reaches from Morocco to Iran, from Cyprus to Portuguese Mozambique, preaching subversion, rebellion, intransigence and hatred of "imperialists." In Cairo he has gathered together a kind of sleazy cominform of renegades and exiles, some (like Jerusalem's ex-Muft) in quiescent asylum, others in active intrigue. Since 38-year-old Gamal Nasser...
...fighters in the Aures and Kabylie Mountains. Political chief for Algeria is 43-year-old Mohammed Khidir, 43, onetime French Deputy who got disgusted in 1946 and went underground, emerging only long enough to help Ben Bella rob the Oran post office of 3,000,000 francs. In both Morocco and Tunisia, Cairo's conspirators have been set back by the victory of the moderates, whom they seem to resent as bitterly as they do the French. Morocco's Cairo leader is Allal el Fassi, chief of the Istiqlal Party, who was exiled by the French 18 years...
...Voice of the Arabs. On four wave lengths, the Voice pours out a stream of stirring Arab songs, inflammatory news summaries and incendiary comment with the hypnotic insistence of a kind of political muezzin. It alleges "imperialist" plots, fictitious massacres, Zionist "conspiracies." It recommends riots in Jordan, rebellion in Morocco, revenge in Algeria. Blaring from loudspeakers in cafes and hovels throughout the Middle East, it is for a vast number of illiterate Arabs the only news they get. By relay stations up the Nile, it also aims at all Africa, beaming broadcasts in Swahili to Kenya (where it supported...