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Frenchman and Arab, Christian cross and Islam crescent meet in uneasy union, but with differing degrees of hostility and hope. Besides Morocco, the French holdings...
...rigged in favor of the French colons. Extremists organized a bloody rising in the eastern mountains last year. Moderate Nationalists might have worked for compromise, but the French outlawed the entire party and declared that because "Algeria is France," revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. When Morocco's "Fateful Day" arrived a fortnight...
Nationalists in the Algerian hills started up trouble at the same hour. The result was almost as bloody as in Morocco...
There are half a million Jews in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and no one knows whether or when they will be caught up in the flare of violence in North Africa. Even before last week's rioting, 80,000 North African Jews had applied for free transportation to Israel, but last week the Jewish Agency's Immigration Committee set the country's "absorptive capacity" for this year at 45,000, and doubted that it could scrape together enough money to transport even that many. Israel cannot absorb large numbers of newcomers without grave risk to its burdened...
Died. General Raymond-Francis Duval, 60, commander in chief of French forces in Morocco since 1950; in the crash of his Piper liaison plane; near Kasba-Tadla, Morocco (see FOREIGN NEWS...