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...French are determined to hang onto North Africa. The richest and most troubled part of it is Morocco. Larger than California and potentially as productive, Morocco is corrugated by the ranges of the Atlas Mountains. In the south is the Sahara, but in the north and west, along the Atlantic shore, Morocco abounds with vineyards, olive groves, forests and corn. More than 300.000 French colons, most of them settled in neat, irrigated farmsteads, have made its hillsides bloom. From its mines French engineers dig vast supplies of manganese and one-sixth of all the world's phosphates...
...French point with pride to their material achievements in Morocco. Infant mortality rates have dropped from 32 to 19 per 1,000 since 1930; Morocco's population has tripled since 1912. The colons own only one-seventh of the land, but it is by far the best; they raise 30% of Morocco's farm products but, unlike the Moroccans, get a. 20% rebate on their property taxes. Morocco's fine French roads run past colon farms, its dams are sited with an eye to watering those lands...
Pasha of Marrakech. His Excellency Hadj Thami El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, was born in the high Atlas about 80 years ago. His first profession was banditry, and he still rides round Morocco with a machine gun on his lap. Today, El Glaoui, still lean, dark and pantherish, is one of the world's richest men. He takes a tithe of the almond, saffron and olive harvests in his vast domain, owns huge blocks of stock in French-run mines and factories, gets a rebate on machinery and automobiles imported into his realm. As a sideline, he reputedly takes...
...staged by the colonial police. Then the French colons began taking the law into their own hands. Nervous and jittery, like the British settlers in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau war, they organized gangs of counterterrorists among the "poor white" Spaniards and Corsicans who lurk in Morocco's big towns. French terrorists began shooting Moroccans in broad daylight, and the police did nothing to stop it. White terrorists in Morocco also murdered Frenchmen whom they suspected of being too sympathetic to the Nationalists. Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the influential editor of the modern Maroc-Presse, wrote Premier...
Faure persuaded the Moroccans to accept the outlines of Grandval's plan. A bigger problem was to win the support of the French diehards-in Morocco and in France...