Word: casablanca
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...Faithful), he had immense authority and a good living: two wives, many concubines, vast estates, 60 automobiles and $200,000 a year spending money. All he had to do was behave. Back in 1943, the French began to suspect that Ben Youssef was getting out of hand. During the Casablanca conference, the Sultan had a meal alone with Franklin D. Roosevelt, who (the French suspect) filled him full of anticolonialism. He later ignored his aged advisers and heeded his son Moulay Hassan, who was mixed up in the Istiqlal (Nationalist) independence movement...
Morocco. "I spent five years in Morocco from 1941-1945 . . . President Roosevelt came to the Casablanca conference in January 1943, and with the recklessness of a schoolboy told the Sultan he should assert his independence of the French . . . This was like throwing a Roman candle into a barrel of gasoline." Childs's recommendation: the U.S. should abandon its "Alice in Wonderland policy," which is undermining the French administration. Instead, the U.S. should promote "greater liberty for the Moroccans, within the framework of the French Union, without inciting the Moroccans to open rebellion, which has only been to the advantage...
...fitted out a 23-ft. Bermuda-rigged sloop, Felicity Ann, with a 5-h.p. diesel engine, a radio receiving set, pressure kerosene stove, sextant, compass and chronometer. In May she set sail from Plymouth Harbor. Plagued by storms, she was forced to land in Brittany, Spain, Gibraltar, Casablanca. From Casablanca, she headed for the Canary Islands, was overdue 18 days and given up for lost before she finally made Las Palmas in the Canaries. Last week, 65 days later-and eight months after she started-Ann dropped anchor at Portsmouth, Dominica...
Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea. After eight days at sea, Bombard turned up at Casablanca, 200 miles south of Tangier on the African coast. From Casablanca he sailed to the Canaries. Leaving L'Heretique at Las Palmas, he flew to Paris to see his wife and their newborn daughter. At last, in October, he hoisted his small, triangular sail, set out again from Las Palmas on the long voyage across the Atlantic...
...General Augustin Guillaume at a funeral for the European dead, "are the sowers of hatred . . . whose cause cried for blood. It is their appeals to fanaticism and disorder, encouraged so imprudently from outside by our enemies, and alas, by our friends, which are at the bottom of the drama Casablanca has just lived through." The predominantly French crowd cheered, clapped, chanted and booed as if it were at a political rally. What was the point of the slaughter? One arrested Arab nationalist explained: "It was the best way to create incidents so that we could offer martyrs to the United...