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...them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece (aunt by marriage of King George II), were war refugees. A few had journeyed from handsome hideaways in Morocco and Brazil. Travel agencies had done a land-office business...
...onetime Premier of France, five times Minister of Finance; in Mamers, France. Son of a millionaire (who was himself Minister of Finance), aristocratic, dictatorial Joseph Caillaux, in 1911, appeased Germany in a secret negotiation, ceding part of the French Congo to the Kaiser for a free French hand in Morocco, was forced to resign his premiership. Blazing because of Le Figaro's attacks on Caillaux and the public reprinting of their love letters, his second wife put five bullets into Le Figaro's Editor Gaston Calmette, was acquitted of murder in time to see her husband convicted...
...were high [over Morocco's Atlas Mountains], . . . Down there lived sheep men-obscure mountain men who had never heard of a nebelwerfer or a bazooka. Men at home at the end of the day in the poor, narrow, beautiful security of their own walls...
Persistent Spain. Long-drawn, indecisive talks with slippery little Caudillo Francisco Franco made no visible progress despite recent misinformation to the contrary. Already cut off from U.S. oil, Spain seized Anglo-U.S. oil stocks in Tetuán, Spanish Morocco, on the pretext that Spanish taxes had not been paid. The U.S. and Britain protested, but Spanish tungsten continued to flow into Germany for high-speed tools and armor-piercing shells...
...responsible for this sort of eat-your-cheesecake-and-kid-it-too is Gagster Don Hartman, who put some of the trickiest comic curves into the Road to Singapore, Zanzibar and Morocco. The whole picture is easy, handsome, unabashed. It was a fantastic idea to festoon a completely unreal version of World War II around Comedian Danny Kaye. The result: one of the few pictures which seem to have been made for a huge audience of soldiers overseas, avid for such funny fare. (By month's end they will be seeing...