Word: berbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Casablanca TIME Correspondent André Laguerre cabled: "The French settlers are worried about governmental instability in Paris, worried about Socialist direction of imperial politics because they think Socialist theorizing does not fit in well with the hard realities of administering a mixed nation (Arab and Berber) where democratic slogans have little meaning for the natives...
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...