Word: morocco
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...Nazi-controlled Paris press howled for just that, and castigated General Weygand for going no further "than an oath of loyalty to the Marshal." It was rumored that two Nazi Panzer divisions with 1,000 tanks had crossed from Spain to Spanish Morocco, ready to force Hitler's will, if necessary, on Vichy's North African forces...
...from Libya and possibly the Middle East and Turkey toward Egypt and Suez; 2) from Libya down through French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola (by transport plane) toward British South Africa; 3) from Spain and Spanish Morocco across Weygand's Morocco and West Africa (by persuasion or force) toward Dakar. The road to Dakar has already been improved and Dakar is the strongest fortress on the Atlantic coast of Africa...
Born. To Henri, Count of Paris, France's Bourbon-Orleans pretender, and Isabelle of Orleans & Bragance: twins, Michel and Jacques, their seventh and eighth children; in French Morocco...
...Iran. 3. Syria. 4. Tunisia. 5. Morocco...
...Boer leader, Oom Paul Kruger. He refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia, through which Bismarck had protected Germany's rear for adventures in Western Europe, and further alienated Russia by supporting Austria's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908. He blocked French seizure of Morocco for a while, rattled his sword at France...