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Morocco. Suave, white-robed Sultan Sidi Mohamed of Morocco last month shattered precedent by making a trip to the internationalized Moroccan city of Tangier. There he cut from his prepared speech a friendly reference to the French Union, lauded the Arab League. Said he: "Morocco is . . . solidly linked with the Arab countries of the Orient...
...cases only half-trained. When it came to combat, nine out of ten were utter greenhorns. With huge fleets committed far from home, heavy weather on D-day might have been fatal. The weather was in fact generally calm and clear, although high seas (15ft. surf) had swept the Moroccan coast almost until the morning of the landings...
...another of those amiable semi-burlesques in Technicolor which generally feature either beauteous Maria Montez jouncing down a stairway or beauteous Yvonne de Carlo dancing. This time it is Miss de Carlo's turn. A refined girl, she nevertheless heads the floor show in a tidy sort of Moroccan dive in order to support her mother (Eve Arden), a lady wastrel. She is rescued from these questionable surroundings by a sailor named...
...heard legionaries speak with awe of the cold and murderous courage of an officer named Francisco Franco. He also learned of a cynical doctrine held by some military careerists: it would never do to relieve Spain-either by complete success or withdrawal-of the mess and waste of the Moroccan adventure...
...leftovers from one of his dinner parties. The Suitcase is about a traveling salesman who finds himself in a hotel room with an unknown woman's overnight case -which he unpacks, and loses himself in a wistful fantasy of romantic love. The Moon Watch is about a simple Moroccan Negro, who, when transplanted to Vienna as a valet by a well-meaning professor of Arabic, naturally assumes that his master is the magic that makes the city hum. Sixteen Thousand Francs is about a German who steals money off a dead French officer in World War I. Fifteen years...