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...lurk in Morocco's big towns. French terrorists began shooting Moroccans in broad daylight, and the police did nothing to stop it. White terrorists in Morocco also murdered Frenchmen whom they suspected of being too sympathetic to the Nationalists. Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the influential editor of the modern Maroc-Presse, wrote Premier Faure: "The situation is getting worse." That night last June, as he stepped out of his luxurious Casablanca apartment, Lemaigre-Dubreuil was machine-gunned to death. The 13 bullets in his body were of the same type as those used by the Casablanca police...
Even the French police make no bones about their hatred of the paper. Two of them recently beat a British photographer because they thought he worked for Maroc-Presse; a top police official warned the U.S. Air Force public-information officer in the area not to associate with the paper's editors. Why do Editor Mazzella and his staff refuse to give in to the terrorists? Says Editor Mazzella: "I'm fulfilling a human obligation I just can't run away from. I'm attached to Maroc-Presse. It's the only newspaper that...
...Maroc-Presse, started in 1949 by Mine-Owner Jacques Walter, was not founded as a crusading newspaper, but to cash in on Morocco's postwar boom. In its early days Maroc-Presse, like its competitors, rarely criticized the ironhanded suppres sion of nationalism by Resident General Alphonse Tuin. But in 1953, Maroc-Presse's Editorial Director Henri Sartout decided that France could no longer rule Morocco by force, should instead give the natives a voice in government, and thus win their support. The attack on the paper began at once. French business men pulled out their advertising...
...more autonomous rule it planned for Morocco. Mazzella returned from Paris and was named editor in chief. After Lemaigre-Dubreuil was murdered, Mazzella was again warned of an attack on his life, and he fled for the second time. He returned to Casablanca on Bastille Day, kept Maroc-Presse publishing while mobs rioted outside his plant for two days...
...constant danger, he refuses to carry a weapon. Yet Editor Mazzella entertains no thought of giving up his crusade. In fact, he hopes he may DC winning it. New Resident General Gilbert Grandval (TIME, Aug. 1) is already beginning to give Moroccans a start toward the moderate rule that Maroc-Presse has been demanding all along...