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...People are always asking me what I do in nightclubs. 'Don't be stupid,' I reply, 'I get stinko!'. . . This morning ... I did something more. I sat in a seat in the Champagne Room at El Morocco which was still warm from having held the posterior of the ex-King of England. . . . Although the seat had rubbed and been rubbed by royalty, in a quite literal sense, I didn't notice when I rubbed it, and it rubbed me, that it felt different than any other seat. However, it may be that...
Ready In the West. Said a German military commentator, Captain Ludwig Sertorius: "The huge British and American army reserves massed in Algeria and Morocco are enough to form not one but several armies. . . . The Allied high command . . . is planning a. landing maneuver on a large scale...
Part of the Allied reserve is the U.S. Fifth Army, trained first in the U.S., then behind the lines in North Africa, under the command of Lieut. General Mark Clark. The Fifth was stationed during the winter and spring near the border of Spanish Morocco. On at least one occasion General Clark crossed the border, conferred in secrecy and amity with Franco's High Commissioner Luis Orgaz Yoldi...
...only recently turned professional. Before the war she was prominent in Paris society; she is the wife of Herve Alphand, former Treasury attaché of the Vichy Government in Washington. Her father, Rober-Raynaud, founded La Dépêche Marocaine, the first French daily newspaper in Morocco. When the Alphands arrived in the U.S. three years ago, Herve Alphand said: "In France now there are only two things to do: to work and to be silent. I have come here to work and to be silent." But he did not stay silent long. Less than a year after...
...General Auguste Noguès of Morocco, was North Africa's most truculent military figure under Vichy. A shrewd man with twinkling eyes, he is feared and respected by the natives. He has shown no warmth toward Germany, none toward the U.S. or Britain. Last week he climbed on Giraud's unity bandwagon...