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They died by the dozens, but still they came on. By 3 a.m. they had overrun two hilltop posts on the perimeter's north face, finishing off the Moroccan and Thai defenders with knives, bayonets, machetes, grenades. Within minutes the Viet Minh were putting mortar fire on Nasan's vital airstrip. Next day the attackers had backed off of one hill, and French paratroopers recaptured the other...
...Indo-China one day last week, 2nd Lieut. Francis Marion, armored cavalryman of the Moroccan Spahis, was rolling along Route Coloniale 11 in his tank, far in advance of his column. "Return at once," ordered his superior officer by the radio. "Give me five minutes more," said Marion. In that five minutes the young French reservist uncovered a Communist arms dump: 200 tons of American, Chinese, Japanese, Czech and French weapons, including 1,000 rifles, 60 submachine guns, 22 machine guns, 51 bazookas, 114 mortars, and three Russian-made trucks...
French Reform: Moroccan and Tunisian nationalist leaders in 1946 demanded the suppression of the French secretariat, administration and gendarmarie, the complete elimination of French influence from government except in local bodies where there was a French minority. The French government replied with a program of reforms which provided for Arab representation in local and municipal government. Reform plans were submerged under a hail of protests from the 1) French colonials, who thought the Arabs were getting too much, and 2) the Arab nationalists, who thought they were not getting enough. France still believes a compromise possible. The French...
...import restrictions are illegal and Americans have the right to import goods to French Morocco on the same terms as Frenchmen; 2) U.S. citizens in certain civil and criminal cases may claim the right to be heard in U.S. consular courts, but in other cases are subject to Moroccan laws; 3) U.S. citizens in Morocco must pay Moroccan taxes...
...will have for years to come, including the jet-powered B-47 and the experimental XB-52. From Morocco, S.A.C. will be in easy range of Soviet targets in the Ukraine, the Caucasus oilfields-in fact, any targets in European Russia, from Moscow to the southern frontier. Yet the Moroccan bases are almost unreachable from the U.S.S.R. by land. To take them, short of an airborne assault, the Red Army would have to skirt the eastern Mediterranean and cross the whole of North Africa. "European bases may give us 10% more hitting power," says one Air Force officer, "but Morocco...