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...trouble with such a "settlement" was that it did not promise peace; it merely postponed solutions. "The whole place could explode again at any minute," said a worried French official in Morocco...
...thousands of Moslem terrorists out of the hills (TIME, Aug. 29), claimed the lives of 92 Frenchmen and at least 1,000 Moroccans. But that was only a beginning; last week the Berber tribes were still on the rampage in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains that straddle central Morocco. Shouting horsemen, brandishing antique guns, swept into Khouribga, where the French own phosphate mines, joined up with the Arab miners and hacked 203 people to death. Near by, Moroccan iron workers in the town of Ait Amar dragged their bosses into the streets and tortured them horribly. One French engineer...
French Attack. The French army met primitive savagery with mechanized ruthlessness. French regulars, supported by tanks, planes and field guns, rolled into the Atlas ranges. In the villages of central Morocco, French Legionnaires tore down houses and even tents. One French detachment was held up .by snipers firing from a house. The troops demolished the house with .75-mm. shells, then rolled over its ruins in a heavy tank. Feeble cries came from under the ruins, so the French backed up the tank and crunched it back and forth until no more cries came...
...world, Islam reverberated with sympathy and alarm. Seventeen Arab and Asian nations asked the U.N. to intervene. In Karachi, 5,000 Moslems burst through police lines and burned an effigy of "French Colonialism." The U.S., with some 20,000 Americans stationed at the four SAC air bases in Morocco, maneuvered to keep from being involved. Anxious to support the cause of Arab freedom, yet loth to antagonize NATO Partner France, Washington only expressed concern and asked the French government not to use U.S. equipment in its African colonies...
Grubstake. The French stake in North Africa is prodigious. With its empire in Asia gone, the loss of its African colonies could seal the doom of French claims to being a major power. France has invested tens of billions of dollars in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Its businessmen depend heavily on them for markets, raw materials and labor; its army taps their manpower. "Without North Africa," French imperialists say, "France would have no history in the 21st century. We should be 40 million Frenchmen facing twice that number of Germans. Another Portugal...