Word: casablanca
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Then the ship's company was taken to Casablanca in Morocco. There they debarked and were put into a concentration camp. Some of them died. A baby was born. Some were released. Finally, at summer's end, a group of 40 was released in a body, put aboard the Spanish ship the Cabo de Buena Esperanza (Cape of Good Hope), bound once more for Brazil. Their visas had been guaranteed by the Brazilian consul at Casablanca...
...have almost all braved dangers to join De Gaulle. Many tales are told of their daring, of the sacrifice of the people behind them. Two fliers took an Italian Armistice Commission plane at Casablanca and flew it to Gibraltar. Two boys flew a German Colonel's plane from a field in Occupied France and landed it on a military airdrome in England. Another stole a transport plane from the Vichy airport and flew to London. A scientist who was reluctant to leave his wife and five children in France found a note in his pocket when he was halfway...
France's Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye promptly answered this warning with a series of denials. There were, he said, no German troops at Dakar, Casablanca, or in any French Mediterranean port. He even said there were no Axis forces in Syria, no airborne Axis troops in any French possessions of the Near East. France had no aggressive designs against Britain. But, said M. Henry-Have proudly, "the leaders of France . . . will defend French territories against any attack...
Last week London sources said that heavy French shipments including oil, rubber, lead, wool and foodstuffs have been moving from U.S. Gulf ports into Nazi hands. The goods have been shipped to Martinique, thence to Dakar or Casablanca on the West African coast, thence to North African ports, thence (running the British blockade) to Marseille. The British Government announced last week that it had obtained copies of an order by Admiral Darlan to French merchant captains to scuttle their ships rather than submit to British capture-the order including descriptions of the best German-tested scuttling methods...
...last week the Freetown base suddenly became more important than ever. With Dakar and Casablanca reportedly about to be turned over to the Nazis, it was Britain's-and might be the Americas'-most strategic base on the east shore of the South Atlantic. If raiding action were to come from Dakar and Casablanca, counteraction would have to come from Freetown...