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...Marrakech in French Morocco last week, General de Gaulle had an apparently cordial talk with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, just recovered from pneumonia...
Just a list of the cities we have visited: Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Oran, Meknes, Oudjda, Algiers, Fez. We have spent a night in a Sultan's palace at Fez, we have visited the headquarters of the Foreign Legion in Sidi-bel Abbes . . . we have seen the Casbah in Algiers. . . . Three gals, two others and myself, drove all across North Africa from Casablanca to Bizerte. From Bizerte we flew over to Sicily. Bizerte was an appalling sight. ... At night ... the moon shines down on empty shells of white buildings with black windows...
Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...
...work, under the name of Charles Morini, in a Paris exhibition. Four Churchill oils were sold (for ?30 each). Once a Churchill painting went for an even higher price at a Balmoral benefit. But the Prime Minister keeps most of his 300-odd pictures in his own studio. (In Marrakech, Morocco, on a day off after the Casablanca Conference with President Roosevelt, he painted a view of the Atlas Mountains...
Last week Winston Churchill parted from Franklin D. Roosevelt at Marrakech in French Morocco. The President headed west, for a stopover in Brazil. Churchill-though few knew it-headed east. Last week, with six of Britain's highest ranking military, naval and air force commanders, he turned up in Turkey. On a railway siding at Adana, near the Syrian frontier, he conferred with President Is-met Inönü, Premier Sükrü Saracoglu, Foreign Minister Numan Menemencoglu (pronounced men-eh-men´-joe-glue) and Turkey's military commanders. The official communique...