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...time Patton's three tank columns had pierced through to Casablanca, all coastal French Morocco, from Agadir in the south to the Spanish Moroccan border on the north, was in American hands...
...landings around Rabat and others to the south, beyond the high, rocky coast immediately below the port. First and most important of these southerly attacks was at Safi, a port and airdrome center 140 miles southwest of Casablanca. Next day more troops landed well south of Safi, at Agadir and Mogodor...
...four pictures through RKO* next year. The four, picked by Towne for their story value: The Swiss Family Robinson (published in 1813), James Fenimore Cooper's The Deer slayer (1841), Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and Alfred Batson's contemporary African Intrigue, dealing with the Agadir incident of 1911. Producer Towne will stress his stories rather than his stars, hopes for big names but will insist on actors to suit his roles. His idol at the moment is George Bernard Shaw, who, after refusing for years to let the cinema tinker with his plays, got Pygmalion...
Since orders are emphatically orders when they come from Il Duce, Admiral Cantu and his 19 ships stayed on. Vexed Paris editors pointedly recalled Wilhelm II's high-handed dispatch of the warship Panther to Agadir in 1911 as a threat to France. The Italian demonstration at Durazzo apparently was II Duce's answer to M. Barthou who had just told a madly cheering Rumanian Chamber of Deputies in Bucharest that under the post-War treaties "Peace is restored to you and your frontiers! They will remain yours. You should know that if a square centimetre of your...
...week, Germans were accused of secret gunrunning to Moroccan tribesmen when France marched in and occupied Fez. As last week, Sidi Fra Achmed Schaefer Arksis was supposed to be involved. Only 100 mi. from Ifni, where the former warship Delphin was theoretically bound last week, is the harbor of Agadir. There in 1911 anchored the German warship Panther "to protect German interests." For many days war was very close...