Word: casablanca
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...newly aware of Islam. The shouts of Teheran mobs, the shot that killed King Abdullah, echo years, the world's chancelleries. As it has for 1,300 years, the riddle of Islam still confronts the West. It stands there, some 300 million strong, not giving an inch from Casablanca to the Sulu...
...Columbia) operates strictly on the old merchandising maxim that the best product is one that has already proved itself with the customers. Tricked out with a few new flourishes, this sales-tested item has been manufactured with exactly the same dies that stamped out Humphrey Bogart's successful Casablanca...
Arab faith in America goes back to November 1942, when the U.S. Army went ashore at Casablanca against Vichy
Labonne's liberalism, approved in Paris, was not liked by the Morocco-born French colonials. In April 1947, Senegalese soldiers from French West Africa, provoked no one knows exactly how, ran amuck in the Medina. (Arab quarter) of Casablanca, killed 80 Arabs. The Sultan was shocked, announced that the time had come for Morocco to "acquire its full rights." The words hit Paris like a bomb. "Send 20 divisions or General Juin," a deputy shouted. Socialist Premier Ramadier, who did not have 20 divisions, sent General Juin to replace Labonne...
Algeria-born Alphonse Juin, among the first French generals to join the Allied forces in North Africa, was one of the Allies' ablest combat commanders (Tunisia and Italy) in World War II. Said he, as he landed at Casablanca in 1947: "Morocco has a right to be independent. That is normal. But independence must wait until Morocco is ready." His plan for readying Morocco: i) a school to train Moroccan administrators, 2)3 council including members of the Moroccan Chamber of Commerce to advise the French on budget matters, 3) a delegation from the viziers to sit with...