Word: daddah
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...press, "can say that Mauritania has been exploited by France. On the contrary, it is for her a burden") as the Moors' fear of being part of a tighter West African Federation that might be dominated by Negroes. Mauritania's pro-French Premier Si Moktar Ould Daddah promptly branded them "traitors," begged France not to judge his country by the doings of a few "wild men." Nevertheless, as both Rabat and Paris realized, the four defecting delegates had given Mohammed's Greater Morocco campaign its biggest propaganda boost yet. Morocco, which gained its independence two years...