Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Risk of Spain. In order to deny the Allies free communications through the Mediterranean, Germany must keep positions in Africa close to opposite positions in Europe. Tunisia and Sicily afford such positions. Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco could also afford them, and Spain itself could close the narrow way from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean...
...more than two months ago, Franco's troops in Spanish Morocco were enough of a menace to alter Allied military plans in North Africa, definitely hamper preparations for the Tunisian campaign. Now military relations with Spain are much improved and Allied forces have been freed for battle with the Germans. This consideration, more than the less immediate threat of Nazi invasion of Spain, weighed heavily in determining and "justifying" U.S. policy toward Franco...
Military Advocate. A direct result of military dealings with Franco was the presence in Washington of his first ex-Foreign Minister, Colonel Juan Beigbeder (TIME, March 1), former High Commissioner of Spanish Morocco, who is considered to be one of the Allies' few friends in official Madrid. So urgent did the U.S. Government consider its Spanish policy that Beigbeder came to the U.S. as the guest of the War Department. The fact that his reports will presumably go to Franco and the Madrid Government may somewhat limit the information given...
...with Sumner Welles at the State Department, went with him for a chat with President Roosevelt. Guesses were that Colonel Beigbeder was as interested in U.S. foreign policy as in U.S. military might; that U.S. officials were as interested in what Beigbeder had to say about Spain and Spanish Morocco as they were in showing him the U.S. military plant...
Virtually unnoticed by the U.S. press last week was the arrival in Washington of tall, thin Colonel Juan Beigbeder, emissary of Franco's Government in Spain. Ex-Foreign Minister, ex-High Commissioner of Spanish Morocco and present member of Franco's General Staff, he was welcomed by the State Department as a United Nations friend and an indicator that Fascist General Franco now expects a United Nations victory. His purpose: to discuss with U.S. military chiefs the situation in North Africa...