Word: farhat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Arabs and 120,000 Frenchmen in Morocco's teeming, gaudy boomtown Casablanca, some 1,000 miles from the scene of the murder, had even heard of the victim, Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached (TIME, Dec. 15). Yet Casablanca's Nationalist daily El Alam that day urged all Moroccan workers to mourn his death in a general strike. At a strike meeting in the headquarters of the General Union of Moroccan Syndicates, Abdesslem Jibli, knife-faced, hot-eyed Arab leader, fanned the flame of hatred for France before a crowd of some 1,700 turbaned Arabs and serge-suited...
...lonely stretch of road six miles from Tunis, assassins poured a stream of bullets at a man driving past. Next morning his body was found, crushed and unrecognizable. The authorities identified him as the most formidable Tunisian nationalist leader still at liberty in the land: Farhat Hached, 39-year-old head of the 100,000-strong General Union of Tunisian Workers...