Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Winston Churchill parted from Franklin D. Roosevelt at Marrakech in French Morocco. The President headed west, for a stopover in Brazil. Churchill-though few knew it-headed east. Last week, with six of Britain's highest ranking military, naval and air force commanders, he turned up in Turkey. On a railway siding at Adana, near the Syrian frontier, he conferred with President Is-met Inönü, Premier Sükrü Saracoglu, Foreign Minister Numan Menemencoglu (pronounced men-eh-men´-joe-glue) and Turkey's military commanders. The official communique...
...political news which had prevailed in North Africa since the Allied landings last November. The smell of intrigue was worse than even the profoundest pessimists had imagined. Wrote unemotional Drew Middleton, correspondent of the even more unemotional New York Times, just back in Algiers from a trip to the Morocco bailiwick of General Auguste Nogues...
...Profiteering, political apathy . . . distrust of the Americans and lack of faith in an ultimate United Nations victory are rife in French Morocco, where the political and economic situation parallels that of Algeria, but is intensified by the dictatorial character of Resident General Auguste Nogues' regime. . . . French Morocco is a confused, dizzy country, where the American flag flies near concentration camps and French collaborationists form an inter-Allied club and mix freely with American officers...
Spaatz over Doolittle. The Allies also prepared. Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark was already shaping the various U.S. units in North Africa into the Fifth Army (TiME, Jan. 11). Last week British, U.S. and French air forces in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia were placed under the joint command of U.S. Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, who had organized the Eighth Air Force in Britain. Under him in Africa will be the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir William Welsh, Major General Jimmy Doolittle, and General Jean Mendigal with his poorly equipped but zestful French airmen. General Spaatz presented...
...thick and treacherous as the Tunisian mud was the political situation (see p. 32). A constant, silent threat was the Rif territory of Spanish Morocco, lying squarely behind the Allied lines and along the Straits of Gibraltar. Estimates of the number of Spanish troops there ran from 100,000 to 200,000. Among them were efficient fighting men-the Spanish Foreign Legion and tough Moors. Short of heavy equipment, they were well enough armed to hack an attenuated supply line. As long as Fascist Premier Franco ran Spain, sullen, uncertain Spanish Morocco would pin down a certain number of watchful...