Word: morocco
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...with a bribe of $10,000 and the combined diplomatic talents of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, the U.S. persuaded the Barbary pirates to lay off U.S. merchant shipping and signed the Sultan of Morocco to a treaty of friendship. When the treaty ran out in 1836, President Andy Jackson got it renewed indefinitely. Since then, Americans visiting or living in Morocco have had extraterritorial rights, freedom from import controls and certain taxes (although all other countries had given up these rights...
...Morocco, prompted by France, set up some import controls. This was a blow to the small but prospering U.S. business colony in Morocco, made up mostly of ex-G.I.s who had come in on LCIs during World War II and stayed on to make comfortable, Cadillac-powered livings for themselves. The Americans protested to Washington, and Washington protested to Paris...
...played a major part-reports on areas of the world that have become important in the news. Some which you probably remember were those on the British Isles (TIME, July 2), the Moslem World (Aug. 13), Alberta (Sept. 24), the Industrial South (Dec. 10), Hawaii (Feb. 18) and French Morocco (March...
...must be joked about. For more than a century since its founding by King Louis Philippe in 1831, the men of the Foreign Legion, the Kepis Blancs, have fought and died for France in almost continuous campaigning in Algeria, in the Crimea, in Mexico, Tonkin, Dahomey, the Sudan, Madagascar, Morocco, the Dardanelles, Syria, Serbia and France itself. In six years of fighting the Communists, more than 7,000 Legionnaires have died in Indo-China alone. "You Legionnaires," a French general once promised them, "you are soldiers who were meant to die, and I am sending you where...
...shall admire America's courage if it persists in shouting Freedom and Democracy after what it has done for Morocco and Tunisia in the U.N. [TIME, April 28]. Is the Marxist dictum that capitalism and imperialism are next of kin so utterly false...