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France has been just as slow in making way for nationalist aspirations in Morocco as it once was in Indo-China, with results that eventually may be just as bad. For the past nine months, as a French resident put it recently, "Morocco has been living in an acute state of siege." Others called the ironhanded regime of the Resident General, Old Soldier Augustin Guillaume, a "police state," and even saw a prospect of civil...
Molotov ducked and wove, argued that the question of Trieste should be settled first. "We did not come here to discuss Iceland, Morocco, Gibraltar or Trieste, we came to discuss Austria," retorted Dulles. Four fruitless hours later, Bidault said: "We have conceded all we were ever asked to concede, and now we are confronted with heart-rending new proposals...
...that the ex-Sultan of Morocco was en route to exile in Tahiti with his wives and a streamlined harem, it was open season on his past in the French press. The government had deposed him for his anti-French activities and his flirtation with Moroccan nationalists. First came stories showing how he had played with the Nazis during the war. Last week France-Soir, the largest daily in Paris (circ. 955,600) broke an exposé of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef as a "bloody, sadistic Bluebeard." Among France-Soir's sensational charges...
Under the approving eye of Franco's High Commissioner Rafael Garcia Valifio, 430 tribal leaders - pashas, caids and ule-mas - signed and proclaimed a fiery petition pledging "unconditional allegiance" to Spanish policy, denouncing France and soliciting Franco's help in seceding from French Morocco. Garcia Valino thereupon rose and blandly castigated French "colonialism." and pledged his and Franco's weight to the Moroccan cause...
Angered by Spain's behavior and afraid that it might stir up more trouble in Morocco, the French sent an aircraft carrier, two cruisers and a flotilla of destroyers into the vicinity, protested to Spain, and asked the U.S. to please ask Franco to call off his Moroccans. The U.S., with millions invested in French Moroccan air-bases and ready to spend $200 million more on bases in Spain, kept aloof...