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Slotkin was not at all worried that Allied's annual sales were six times Hygrade's $9,000,000. He bought Allied. By trimming off its fat and specializing in branded, packaged food, Hygrade weathered the Depression, soon opened plants in Europe, South America, Ireland, French Morocco, Australia and New Zealand...
This time, Guinness plays the captain of a ferry steamer plying between Gibraltar and Morocco. A quite ordinary fellow to all appearances, he is what might be described as a commuting bigamist...
Between the wars he served as a cavalryman in Syria and Morocco, but he also studied armored war at Saumur. He still refers to himself occasionally as un vieux blindé (an old tank officer). In the late '30s he became chief of the German Section of the Deuxième Bureau (Intelligence), and by war's beginning he was well known as a good intelligence officer. When the Nazis entered Paris in 1940, the Gestapo made a beeline for his apartment, but their bird had flown, joined up with the headquarters of the army in the retreat...
Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, hand-picked Sultan of Morocco, docilely performed an unpleasant duty which his unruly old predecessor had resisted for years. He signed a dahir (decree), dictated by the French, which transferred some of the royal powers to a half-Moorish, half-French administrative council. The dahir was a hard blow at French Morocco's hot-tempered independence movement...