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...sold out to the rats; you will be a feast for the worms," ran one threatening letter to a government official which was signed "The True Frenchmen." One night last October a bomb was thrown into the apartment of the editor of Casablanca's Maroc Presse, who advocated a liberal, evolutionary solution of the Moroccan problem. Another bomb exploded in the home of a French industrialist who the week before had made a vague speech recognizing the existence of "difficulties." Meanwhile the terror kept up against the Moroccans themselves. One wealthy local merchant was cornered in his garage...
Managing Director Rushtons Maroc Ltd. Marrakech, Morocco...
...every continent except Antarctica) that stories based on TIME are appearing in such unlikely papers as Yi Shih Pao of Chungking-En Son Dakika of Turkey, Min Juo Jih Pao of Nanning, Le Combattant (Journal Officiel de I'Association des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre du Maroc) published in Casablanca-and even in papers like the Berliner Borzen-Zeitung, Ncues Wiener Tagblatt and the Rheinische-Westfalische Zeitung (which pick up the news from TIME's Stockholm Edition and sneer at the truth...
...told them I was sad that this battle apparently had to be; that I had come to Maroc not as a man of war but as a man of peace. Their genial manner disappeared, and they both bowed their heads. The Naval officer put forth his hand to shake mine, and as he raised his face, there were tears in his eyes. The captain also shook hands in a very moving manner, and I was free to go about a city under siege entirely unmolested...
...preempted all the available cork forests, vineyards, barley fields. Suddenly alive to its danger, the Government last week sent Administrator Steeg and his party to the scene of the hunger march, and voted $2,250,000 relief money to match $450,000 which the Banque d'Etat de Maroc has already put up to buy food for the starving tribes. Distribution of free barley and mutton has already started...