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...hillsides bloom. From its mines French engineers dig vast supplies of manganese and one-sixth of all the world's phosphates. In its bustling seaside cities, linked by fine new railroads, roads and telephone wires, skyscrapers and modern factories tower above native medinas built before France was France. Casablanca, a squalid fishing port until the French arrived, is now a modern metropolis...
Istiqlal. In 1943, during the Casablanca conference, President Roosevelt invited Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef to join him for dinner. Whether or not Franklin Roosevelt ever made the remark, the report soon spread that he had told the Sultan: "France is finished. Take back your country. We will help." The Sultan's chief interests lay in his harem (40 concubines), his garage (60 cars), and his afternoon game of tennis. Yet, as Imam (Commander of the Faithful), he became the man around whom Moroccans in the new Istiqlal (Independence) Party centered their hopes...
...Cairo propaganda station supported by the Egyptian government, young Moslem fanatics began bombing French stores, derailing trains and stabbing French civilians. In 1954, the long knives and homemade bombs struck down 200 Frenchmen and wounded 500 more. Encouraged by French reverses in Indo-China, the Black Hand openly boasted: "Casablanca will become another Dienbienphu...
...stop it. White terrorists in Morocco also murdered Frenchmen whom they suspected of being too sympathetic to the Nationalists. Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the influential editor of the modern Maroc-Presse, wrote Premier Faure: "The situation is getting worse." That night last June, as he stepped out of his luxurious Casablanca apartment, Lemaigre-Dubreuil was machine-gunned to death. The 13 bullets in his body were of the same type as those used by the Casablanca police...
Premier Faure was shocked. Special detectives from Paris arrested the man suspected of organizing the White Terror. He proved to be Chief Inspector Jean Delrieu, formerly head of the Casablanca police department charged with combatting Arab terrorism. Faure called a Cabinet meeting, then put in a call to the Saar. He wanted to speak to Gilbert Grandval...