Word: marrakech
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Stopover Privilege. The President had been in no hurry to return home from Casablanca. After the ten-day conference was over he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill drove 150 miles to the ancient city of Marrakech, with its grove of palm trees at the foot of the snow-topped Atlas Mountains, with its musty 16th-Century tombs and its square, where snake charmers, jugglers and native dancers perform in the afternoons...
Denials came on the heels of reports that Scorchdancer Josephine Baker, longtime toast of the Paris stage, had" died in Casablanca. New word was that the American-born colored comedienne was lounging in the native quarter of Morocco's isolated Marrakech in "solitary Arabian splendor...
Then the U.S. land and air strategy in Morocco became clear: to advance by land up an excellent highway toward Casablanca, at the same time to fan still farther inland toward the Moroccan army's chief base at Marrakech, 100 miles from the sea in the high Atlas Mountains. At Marrakech, if anywhere, army units loyal to Vichy would probably make their stand. But with Marrakech in hand, the U.S. troops would also have the southern terminus of Morocco's railway system and command of a rail route to Casablanca itself...
...hard-bitten little soldier for the swarthy politician of the white tie was deep-seated and violent. It led many people in many capitals to speculate that Weygand might desert Vichy for Great Britain. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance's chubby, energetic Jay Allen flew to Marrakech, Morocco, scooped the world's press on Weygand's present political intentions: "I cannot give you answers to questions like these," snapped the General, brushing Newsman Allen's prepared list aside. "There is, however, something I want to say. ... I am here to serve my country. That country...
Lieutenant of the French Foreign Legion In camp in the Atlas Mountains, south of Marrakech, Morocco...