Word: berber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terraced city of Tetuan, 10.000 Arabs and Berber tribesmen chanted Viva Espana! and begged Spain's help in throwing off 50 years of French authority in Morocco. In Madrid. Falangist hoodlums stoned the British embassy; in Seville, they screamed "Franco! Franco! We want Gibraltar." All last week, in an outburst of diplomatic orneriness, Spain set out to antagonize its neighbors...
...Quick Look. Next morning the peaceful clop-clop of fiacres on the Boulevard du Quatriëme Zouaves was interrupted by the rumble of trucks filled with Berber troops and the quick march of the blue-black Senegalese riflemen. They were met by a mob of some 10,000 screaming Arabs armed with sticks, stones and anything else that could pierce or bludgeon. Hard-bitten French Commandant Louis Durand three times commanded the mob to halt. As the Arabs continued to surge forward, Durand gave the order; the crack of rifle fire split the air and an estimated 40 Arabs...
...Generous Americans. So far the American invasion numbers 4,000 construction workers and 3,000 blue-uniformed airmen. Thirty-ton earth loaders, compactors and asphalt layers are changing the landscape, within sight of Arab and Berber shepherds who tend their flocks and think their own thoughts. The French administration welcomes the advent of U.S. capital and enterprise, but insists on keeping local wages down to check inflation. Many French bureaucrats, businessmen, speculators and colons (plantation owners) grumble that the generous, kindly Americans will spoil the inhabitants...
...sidence Générale at Rabat today is General Augustin Léon Guillaume, 56, a forthright and plain-spoken man with a brilliant military record in two world wars. A doctor's son from the Alps, Guillaume speaks Italian, German, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Moorish Arabic, Berber; he was a close friend of the late Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny, hero of Indo-China...
...ally to Washington. It came from a man who commands respect in France, and deserves it elsewhere. Guillaume (rhymes with he home) is a French hero of two world wars, who has served in Morocco since 1919. During Vichy days he secretly trained a corps of 10,000 Berber tribesmen, and later led them through Italy, France and Germany. After the war, Guillaume, as military attaché in Moscow, took a close look at Russian might, then became French commander in Germany. He has the dash that the French like in their generals: fellow officers remember him, wrapped...