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Many observers took all this with more than a grain of salt. Heavy Nazi infiltrations have long been reported in French Morocco. Fortnight ago it was said that French North African troops had crossed the Sahara to a camp near the De Gaullist headquarters around Lake Chad...
...whom the imperial dream was an obsession. Italy would grow strong through Fascism, then Italy would conquer an empire. Not only bits of Africa would be hers; she would rule Mare Nostrum and its shores. Italian ships would ply back & forth between Italy and Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco; to the east they would sail to the gates of Islam, which would recognize Italy as its protector. Italian settlers would occupy all the fertile shores of Mare Nostrum, and Mare Nostrum would be Italian forever...
...British warship seized the French tanker Sheherezade-bound from Houston, Texas, to Morocco-off the West African coast; and a Dutch ally intercepted the 8,379-ton French merchant ship Winnipeg-carrying a mixed cargo out of North Africa-off the island of Martinique. There were 210 Germans aboard the Winnipeg...
...facto Axis partnership and full-fledged fascism, the mounting evidence made it impossible. For it remained clear last week that Germany, far from being "alone," was enjoying a good part of France's agricultural and industrial output and the military use of French-controlled territory in Syria and Morocco. Moreover, if the Nazis had not got the French Navy, they apparently controlled the perhaps even more helpful French merchant marine...
There were many guesses as to why Generalissimo Franco had thrown his weight with the Falange. One guess was that he was jockeying with France for favor with Germany; object: French Morocco. Another was that Franco had made changes long deferred while he dickered with the U.S. for food. Best guess was that he was simply strengthening his Government, replacing conservative civilians with both Falangists and Army men. The Army appointments of last month remained. Supporting this guess was a proposal in Arriba, Falangist mouthpiece: "The Falange hails the Army today and comes forward to propose, honorably, frankly and irrevocably...