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Casablanca, French Morocco...
...Alps, Sir Gavin got interested in those elephants: Were they the African, he asked, or the Indian species? A coin-collecting friend gave the answer by showing him Carthaginian coins with big-eared elephants on them. Sir Gavin's conclusion: Hannibal's "tanks" came from Mauritania (Morocco), where elephants were plentiful...
Bourguiba was not willing to stop there. "This is the preamble to complete sovereignty and entire independence.'' he insisted. That insistence, and the resistance of French colonials, may yet jeopardize the agreement; if it fails then all of French North Africa (including Morocco and Algeria) will be in trouble. Bourguiba preferred to be optimistic. "The French are conservative people," he said. "They're not against us; they're just against what they don't know...
Welles is producer and director as well as starring actor. He shot his film in Venice and in French Morocco, where the frowning battlements of an 18th century Arab citadel at Mogador serve beautifully for the exterior scenes supposedly laid in Cyprus. Everything is done with great bravura style, from Orson's putting out a candle with the flat of his hand to a murderous shambles in a Turkish bath where Roderigo (Robert Coote) is trapped and killed, screaming beneath a slatted runway. When Welles strangles Desdemona, it is the most artistic strangling ever: he presses a silken scarf...
Last week the French Foreign Office officially denied that it had made a deal with Franco to withdraw aid from the Loyalist exiles in return for a soft-pedaling of anti-French activity among the Arabs in Spanish Morocco. For the French to admit withdrawing aid from the Loyalists would be to acknowledge that in the past it had been given. But Spanish democrats, with small hope of unseating Franco, were preparing for a cutback in the French help that had sustained them through 16 years of exile...