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...Most favored nations in U.S. aid during the period 1948-56, based on U.S. aid per capita: Israel $131, Greece $108, Austria $104, The Netherlands $100, United Kingdom $74, France $72, Norway $70, Formosa...
Moroccan nationalists base their claim on the fact that 900 years ago the famed Almoravide Dynasty, from which they reckon descent, ruled all of northwest Africa from the Strait of Gibraltar (its Moorish legions settled in Seville) to dark Senegal and the swamps of the Niger. The new kingdom of Morocco occupies about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north...
What worries the French, more than the troubles in Mauritania, is the new outburst of expansive nationalism in Morocco. To get their iron and copper out of 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...
...total of 87 vetoes in U.X. history. The others: France four, United Kingdom two, China...
Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Philip Barry's The Animal Kingdom, with Robert Preston (color...