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...Daladier, Mandel, Campinchi and Delbos had fled from Bordeaux on June 20 on the steamer Massilia, a few days before armistice agreements were concluded with Germany and Italy. Reaching Casablanca, they were held on their ship by Moroccan authorities acting on orders from Bordeaux, to await the Petain Government's decision. In Marseille last week to stand trial, sagging-jawed Daladier and his fellow scapegoats learned that they were the principal victims of a new Government decree withdrawing citizenship and confiscating the property of all citizens who left French territory between May 10 and June 30 without a valid...
Bound In Morocco. General Auguste Noguès (pronounced "no-guess"), commander in chief of North Africa and Resident General of Morocco, had crisply announced that all territory under him would continue to be held, his crack Moroccan armies continue to fight. When Edouard Daladier arrived at Casablanca to argue with him, General Noguès, who served under the late, great Marshal Lyautey in building France's African Empire, arrested M. Daladier, kept him aboard his steamer Massilia guarded by Senegalese troopers. Off Casablanca lay six French cruisers, 21 submarines, 20 trawlers and minesweepers, 60 tankers and other...
...France will go Spanish oranges, Spanish Moroccan iron ore, pyrites, mercury, lead, zinc. In exchange Spain will get French Moroccan wheat, phosphates, barley, manufactured goods. The trade, expected to reach a volume valued at 650,000,000 francs in a few months, will be balanced. A British-Spanish trade pact providing for much greater trade is expected to follow. With that concluded, Spain's commerce will return to the prewar trade status and Generalissimo Franco's Government, despite its ideological sympathies with the Nazis, will find its commercial interests with the Allies...
...Looking as tough as saddle leather and about the same color from 20 years in the Moroccan sun and winds, the adjutant smiled, barked an order in Arabic and in less than a minute we were swinging off through the woods single file. Six riflemen were ahead and six behind...
...again went out into the blackness. After a few minutes the shadowy form of a Moroccan slipped up to the captain and made a rapid report in Arabic." His patrol had grenaded a German patrol. About midnight a rocket shell cast a bluish-white light on the German ridge. " 'Ah,' said the French officer, 'you see, the Boches are mad. One of their patrols did not return on schedule, so they are showing the way home. It is probably the group with the wounded...