Word: fassi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civilized Sahara. The nomads of these countries have one chief thing in common with the modern Moroccans: the Moslem religion. It is being used to arouse the Moroccan people to a sense of the imperial grandeur awaiting them outside their back door. Stumping Morocco, Si Allal el Fassi, rabble-rousing leader of the national Istiqlal Party, cries: "Our culture is the culture of the Sahara. Our civilization is the civilization of the Sahara. Our religion is the religion of the Sahara." Then, to excited thousands, he delivers his message: "The battle for the Sahara has begun. We must...
...Fassi's battle for the Sahara sand is a picayune affair so far. Commandos of his liberation army, no longer needed to fight the French in Morocco, have been trucked down through the Rio de Oro and loosed in vast, sparsely settled Mauritania. Joined by turbaned camel riders who dearly love to fight, Moroccan irregulars have launched attacks on isolated French outposts, killed half a dozen French soldiers and burned a few French armored cars. North of Fort Trinquet last month there was a more serious clash in which, according to Moroccan reports, the French lost 22 men. Nevertheless...
...Mauritania and western Algeria, they would like to go through Morocco, and to do that they need good relations with the kingdom they recently freed. Fortnight ago the Moroccan government officially asked France to negotiate on the future of the Saharan frontier. Last week Si Allal el Fassi brought out the first edition of a 16-page weekly propaganda sheet, called The Moroccan Sahara, dedicated to freeing "our Sahara...
...Oran post office of 3,000,000 francs. In both Morocco and Tunisia, Cairo's conspirators have been set back by the victory of the moderates, whom they seem to resent as bitterly as they do the French. Morocco's Cairo leader is Allal el Fassi, chief of the Istiqlal Party, who was exiled by the French 18 years ago. Last week, despite France's belated granting of independence to Sultan ben Youssef, rebels in Morocco's Rif Mountains fought on, reportedly at El Fassi's command, while El Fassi himself flew to Madrid...