Word: morocco
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...been given whispered warnings by his secretary: "Please do not mention his family! Only twice in my life have I seen the General weep-he is most courageous-but please not to mention his family. Hostages, you know! They have been held since the beginning of the war in Morocco, and the General knows that at any moment they may be shot...
...these five states last week in Spain's "Little World War," as diplomats were now calling it. During the week journalists of the French Radical Popular Front, which supports the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, launched daily rumors that German troops were arriving in Morocco at Ceuta, only 14 miles across the Straits from Britain's Gibraltar and "within canonading range''. In London these rumors had galvanic effect. The nervous Duke of Windsor's nervous intimate friend, British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper, who has said in a public address that...
After M. Daladier had received Mr. Duff Cooper and the Englishman had read in virtually the entire French press increasingly alarming reports of "Blond Moors" (Germans) at Ceuta, he was reminded at the French Foreign Office that not only the Treaty of Versailles but many another bars Germany from Morocco. Simultaneously a French Foreign Office spokesman, not permitting himself to be named, told correspondents that "France will go to any lengths to protect her interests in Morocco!" To Morocco soon will go M. Daladier and generals of the French...
...London circles close to the Prime Minister this week it was said that Squire Baldwin was asking the Radical French Cabinet for further proof of their accusations about Germans in Morocco before his own Conservative British Cabinet finally made up their minds...
...Friday, Harry Iron side still-maintains a full schedule of out side engagements for which he accepts any emolument offered. For all his Funda mentalism, Evangelist Ironside hand somely admits: "I know the King James's Version didn't fall from heaven bound in morocco...