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...persuaded the Barbary pirates to lay off U.S. merchant shipping and signed the Sultan of Morocco to a treaty of friendship. When the treaty ran out in 1836, President Andy Jackson got it renewed indefinitely. Since then, Americans visiting or living in Morocco have had extraterritorial rights, freedom from import controls and certain taxes (although all other countries had given up these rights...
...Morocco, prompted by France, set up some import controls. This was a blow to the small but prospering U.S. business colony in Morocco, made up mostly of ex-G.I.s who had come in on LCIs during World War II and stayed on to make comfortable, Cadillac-powered livings for themselves. The Americans protested to Washington, and Washington protested to Paris...
...crimson robe decked with ermine, Professor André Gros argued for France that the treaty was an archaic document under which the U.S. was trying to build a "quasi-protectorate" of its own in Morocco. The American businessmen in Morocco, Lawyer Gros said, were engaged in privileged import and money-exchange activities "based on fraud," and could not be checked by local laws...
Last week Presiding Judge Sir Arnold McNair (a Briton) delivered the majority opinion: 1) the 1948 import restrictions are illegal and Americans have the right to import goods to French Morocco on the same terms as Frenchmen; 2) U.S. citizens in certain civil and criminal cases may claim the right to be heard in U.S. consular courts, but in other cases are subject to Moroccan laws; 3) U.S. citizens in Morocco must pay Moroccan taxes...
...fast and lived beyond their means"). His advice for Australia, and also for Britain: "They can reduce the demand on their resources or they can increase their output . . . produce more or use less at home . . . find more things to export so they can find the money with which to import...