Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swung the deal in favor of Giraud was the same man who six weeks ago had forced the acceptance of Admiral Darlan. Astute, pro-Vichy General Auguste Nogues, as Resident General of Morocco, held in his hands the power to keep quiet or arouse the Arab tribes. If he said the wrong words, 60.000 Allied soldiers might have to fight a major military campaign in Morocco's bleak and rocky hills. But Nogues said the right words again. He agreed to recognize General Giraud as the new authority...
...quips that rages around her. A couple of wise-cracking camels are the only real competition for Paramount's daffy duo. They don't mind when Bob actually succeeds in making a monkey out of himself. But when Bob and Bing give a hot foot to a whole Arab tribe, they give the audience a camel's-eye view of the human race. As they see it, man is a pretty hopeless animal. Anyone seeing "The Road to Morocco" will have a fine time in agreeing...
...Army as possible. The time was mid-October, three weeks before the U.S. Army planned to invade. All that night and all next day Mark Clark and his men talked and argued with the French officers. All went well until word came that Vichy-controlled police, informed by an Arab servant, were nearing the house...
Vichy had in North and West Africa (Dakar) some 120,000 troops, mostly Arab, Berber and Senegalese enlisted men and noncoms with French officers, and the thoroughly Germanized Foreign Legion. Thanks partly to many a Frenchman's and colonial's ingrained hatred of the Nazis, partly to the assiduous labors of De Gaullists and U.S. State Department agents (see p. 15), the invaders could hope for only nominal resistance from many of Vichy's troops. The colonial air force had perhaps 700 planes, many of them obsolescent, and many of these were concentrated at Dakar...
Smart editors exploited young Seabrook's flair for abnormality. For them he covered deaths, murders, freaks, women bandits, gruesome accidents. Bohemian society was charmed by the thwarted, dark-haired man who shambled about like a hobo, was chummy with Arab sheiks, dined with African cannibals, plunged ecstatically into Haitian voodoo...