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...government officer in Tar-jicht, Morocco, a district the size of Massachusetts but with a meager population of tribesmen, camels and sheep. He ruled his desert strip so successfully and was liked by its people so well that he stayed on after the French withdrew from Morocco. Then the Moroccan "Army of Liberation" came to pillage Tarjicht, and nine months ago Captain Moureau disappeared. But the desert has its verbal grapevine, and over this came, piece by piece, news of Captain Moureau's fate: emasculated, both arms broken, he was, when last seen alive, on exhibition in an animal...
Civilized Sahara. The nomads of these countries have one chief thing in common with the modern Moroccans: the Moslem religion. It is being used to arouse the Moroccan people to a sense of the imperial grandeur awaiting them outside their back door. Stumping Morocco, Si Allal el Fassi, rabble-rousing leader of the national Istiqlal Party, cries: "Our culture is the culture of the Sahara. Our civilization is the civilization of the Sahara. Our religion is the religion of the Sahara." Then, to excited thousands, he delivers his message: "The battle for the Sahara has begun. We must...
...Sahara sand is a picayune affair so far. Commandos of his liberation army, no longer needed to fight the French in Morocco, have been trucked down through the Rio de Oro and loosed in vast, sparsely settled Mauritania. Joined by turbaned camel riders who dearly love to fight, Moroccan irregulars have launched attacks on isolated French outposts, killed half a dozen French soldiers and burned a few French armored cars. North of Fort Trinquet last month there was a more serious clash in which, according to Moroccan reports, the French lost 22 men. Nevertheless, said huge, tanned Lieut. General...
...Failing to secure a patronage job as district tax collector in France, he became violently anti-French and joined the "Cairo" movement. Recently Ould Babana turned up posing as the Emir des Croyants (leader of the believers), with a Senegalese secretary called Prince Sese Zacharias, and leading the Greater Moroccan movement of Mauritania...
...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...