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...Sunday in Manhattan, and the diplomats of the United Nations had postponed for a day their discussion of France's troubles with her rebellious North African protectorates, Morocco and Tunisia. But fanaticism knows no holidays, and in North Africa itself, Arab nationalists, urged on by the Communists, were busy seeking ways to exploit the latest incident...
...Arabs and 120,000 Frenchmen in Morocco's teeming, gaudy boomtown Casablanca, some 1,000 miles from the scene of the murder, had even heard of the victim, Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached (TIME, Dec. 15). Yet Casablanca's Nationalist daily El Alam that day urged all Moroccan workers to mourn his death in a general strike. At a strike meeting in the headquarters of the General Union of Moroccan Syndicates, Abdesslem Jibli, knife-faced, hot-eyed Arab leader, fanned the flame of hatred for France before a crowd of some 1,700 turbaned Arabs and serge-suited...
Hached's union called a three-day strike. Three hundred Arabs trying to march on the headquarters of the French Resident General clashed with police. In French Morocco, also stirred by Hached's death, Arabs killed seven Frenchmen, horribly mutilating some. Then, as the Arab mobs surged through the streets of Casablanca looking for trouble, police opened fire on them, killed at least...
...palace grounds in Marrakech, a photographer got a rare picture of the Sultan of Morocco at play. The result: a rubber-soled Mohammedan sovereign in Western dress and sub-Wimbledon form...
...profitless exchanges, delegates decided that not Korea but colonialism gave most promise of lively fights to come. The 13 anticolonial Arab-Asian powers, defeated in the last session, got together and succeeded in placing on the agenda a proposal to debate 1) France's rule in Tunisia and Morocco, and 2) South Africa's virulent racism. They won despite protests from France, Britain, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand that such debates constitute "meddling" in internal affairs. The U.S. haplessly reversed its stand of last year, opposed its European allies and joined the anti-colonials. Russia, seeing...