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With Fascist sympathizers installed by the Vichy government for the most part controlling the colonies of Morocco, Algiers, and Tunisia, the situation created by the joint American-British thrusts into Africa last November has been extremely difficult, Andre Mayer, former professor at the College de France, said yesterday...
When the Americans entered the colonies, and accepted Darlan, they dealt a heavy blow to the Free French movement inside France, Mayer said. The situation was more especially complicated by the fact that Algiers, Morocco, and Tunisia are on very different planes, both politically and socially, Mayer explained. Algiers is a full department, with representatives in Paris, while Morocco and Tunisia are but protectorates...
...Profiteering, political apathy . . . distrust of the Americans and lack of faith in an ultimate United Nations victory are rife in French Morocco, where the political and economic situation parallels that of Algeria, but is intensified by the dictatorial character of Resident General Auguste Nogues' regime. . . . French Morocco is a confused, dizzy country, where the American flag flies near concentration camps and French collaborationists form an inter-Allied club and mix freely with American officers...
...illustration of the present antidemocratic trend in the Morocco regime is furnished by Vichy's Legion of Veterans. . . . Ninety percent of the Frenchmen who joined . . . believed it a legitimate veterans' organization. Since then they have found that it is anti-Allied, antiliberal, antiSemitic, anti-Freemason and pro-Vichy and pro-Axis. . . . The legion, by one means or another, controls the lives of thousands of people despite the American landings...
...thorough shake-up of the Government appears necessary. The real feelings of the people must be represented in the Government in some way, and the political persecution that is a disgrace to the Allied nations must be ended. Above all, an economic plan must be drawn up to save Morocco from the depression that will follow the departure of U.S. troops. . . . There are numerous trained men and skilled administrators available. . . . Many of them have been sidetracked because they are pro-Allied and anti-German. . . . 'Unless General Nogues and his associates are removed there will be trouble'-that...