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Contrary to the Britisher's notion of civilizing his subjects, the French thesis is that they must interfere as little as possible with the native life in their colonies. The French go-native system has worked extremely well in Tunis and Morocco, badly in Syria, and has now run into trouble in French Indo-China...
Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel, Morocco...
...Meknes, in inland Morocco, a bored French sergeant marched a platoon through the white deserted streets before dawn one day last week, posted his men at strategic street corners. The men lit cigarets and waited...
...French Line, M. Laval reminded the Chamber, operates not only transatlantic, trans-Mediterranean and Far East services (to French Indo-China) but has pioneered French Morocco as a tourist playground, built in the oases of its deserts a chain of de luxe hotels. With depression striking everywhere, M. Laval found it possible to understand how the French Line has incurred a deficit, asked the Chamber to guarantee in the name of the State a $6,000.000 French Line bond issue. "The Campagnie Generate is not the only navigation company now in trouble," wound up M. Laval. "I might cite...
BEHIND MOROCCAN WALLS-Henriette Celarie; translated & adapted by Constance Lily Morris-Macmillan ($5). Mme Celarie, wife of a French officer in Morocco, whiled away long garrison days by finding out what she could about Moroccan women. From the two books which she wrote (Amours Morocaines, La Vie Mysterieuse des Harems) Translator Constance Lily Morris, herself a sojourner in Morocco, has culled this collection of true stories and sketches. Macmillan has printed it in a big folio; Artist Boris Artzybasheff has illustrated it in sumptuous black & white...