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...into its propaganda machine. The theme: Batista's remarks are a warning that "the Anglo-Saxon empires are planning to use Spain to create a new base against the Axis powers." Axis broadcasts spread a report that Juan Negrin, last premier of the Spanish Republic, had arrived in Morocco from Britain (where, last week, he was still living quietly in Hertfordshire), to build a political pre-invasion bridgehead to Spain. On more solid ground, a Berlin broadcast aligned "Franco Spain" with "National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, Laval France...
...Give the Weapons." Last fortnight the official Radio Morocco proclaimed Admiral Darlan "Chief of State in French Africa." Last week, using the more modest title of High Commissioner, he said: "The people of North Africa feel that America will liberate them from the Germans. They believe the coming of the Americans will mean a happier life for them. Our armed forces are anxious to fight against the Germans again. But they do not want to fight under conditions that prevailed in 1940. They need tanks, planes and modern equipment. It would be in the best interests of the United Nations...
...Spanish Morocco, at General Dwight Eisenhower's rear, Franco has increased his garrisons from about 135,000 to 180,000 men. Ill-equipped and poor though Spain is, some of the forces in Spanish Morocco are partially mechanized. Many are Moors, who are among the world's best soldiers...
...Britain to North Africa, and perhaps for long-range U.S. fighters. Casablanca (1,200 miles from southern Britain) can serve as a substitute, and as a depot for planes flown from the U.S. via Natal and Dakar; men and equipment can be hauled by rail from Casablanca to upper Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The counter-preparations were well along. Allied strategists hoped that the Axis had missed the boat to Gibraltar...
...Allies had gone into French Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia with none too many men for the job, and they now have a major struggle to win. The distances are great: to effect a junction of General Montgomery's Army in Libya (based on Alexandria) and General Eisenhower's British and U.S. forces (whose Atlantic base is Casablanca) was like trying to bring together armies from opposite shores of the U.S. (see map), with nothing like the excellent highway and communications facilities of the U.S. Franco's threat was one more strain on Allied manpower and communications...