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Died. Jean Pierre Clément Marie, Due de Guise, 65, pretender to the French throne; in Larache, Spanish Morocco. In recent weeks many a Frenchman prophesied that 6 ft. 6 in. Jean III would succeed Petain as Chief of State, re-establish the monarchy...
Hell & Heaven. The wreck of a country that is Spain today could use a few conquests - Gibraltar, probably a slice of French Morocco and Algeria, possibly a nip of Southern France - to divert the people's minds from their empty bellies, their sick and their war-crazed, their smoldering hatred and ever-present fear. Spaniards say: "It is hell now, but it is heaven compared to the war." Half a million are still in jail, packed six to ten in two-man cells, sleeping in two-hour relays. Twenty or 30 a day are executed...
...them, WPA hired John Dimmock Newsom, 46, who was born in Shanghai, brought up in France, went to Cambridge, anthropologized in Melanesia, resided in Morocco. In 1938 he became State director of the Writers' Project in Michigan. Last year he had returned to his Maryland farm when he was asked if he would try to make WPA's writers write. Soon he was doing it. Says he with an efficient snap in his voice: "This is a production unit, and it's work that counts. I've never been for art for art's sake...
...Bound In Morocco. General Auguste Noguès (pronounced "no-guess"), commander in chief of North Africa and Resident General of Morocco, had crisply announced that all territory under him would continue to be held, his crack Moroccan armies continue to fight. When Edouard Daladier arrived at Casablanca to argue with him, General Noguès, who served under the late, great Marshal Lyautey in building France's African Empire, arrested M. Daladier, kept him aboard his steamer Massilia guarded by Senegalese troopers. Off Casablanca lay six French cruisers, 21 submarines, 20 trawlers and minesweepers, 60 tankers and other...
Presently, in Casablanca, arrived the man whom great Lyautey designated in 1916 to succeed him as Governor of Morocco: General Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud. the white-whiskered "Lion of Champagne." who, wounded at Gallipoli, had his right arm amputated instead of nursed along, so that he could get back into action a month sooner. Whatever General Gouraud said to General Noguès, it had instant effect. Presently the latter, and also Governor General Georges Le Beau of Algeria, saluted the Pétain Government and announced "an end to hostilities" in North Africa...