Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish Morocco, at General Dwight Eisenhower's rear, Franco has increased his garrisons from about 135,000 to 180,000 men. Ill-equipped and poor though Spain is, some of the forces in Spanish Morocco are partially mechanized. Many are Moors, who are among the world's best soldiers...
Francisco Franco looked north and saw German troops concentrated on the Spanish-French border. To the south, U.S. and British forces formed a virtual arc around Spanish Morocco. From the U.S. in the west had come assurances of peaceful intentions if Spain remained neutral. From Italy in the east, Franco's onetime ally, harassed Benito Mussolini, cried out hopefully: "There is no longer any distinction between Fascism, Naziism and Falangism...
Denials came on the heels of reports that Scorchdancer Josephine Baker, longtime toast of the Paris stage, had" died in Casablanca. New word was that the American-born colored comedienne was lounging in the native quarter of Morocco's isolated Marrakech in "solitary Arabian splendor...
...Many Cooks. Unhappily the execution of the plan up to now has been anything but brilliant. Though a good many people have known of the North African campaign for months, last week none of the overlapping Washington agencies knew how to handle civilian-goods shipments to Morocco, Algeria, etc. There was a four-cornered wrangle between 1) Lend-Lease (which pays for the goods), 2) the Board of Economic Warfare (which distrusts Darlan and all his works), 3) the State Department (which in the main is willing to play along with ex-Vichy officials but is not prepared...
Napoleon Edward Taylor worked in a Baltimore packing house until he was inducted into a Maryland Negro regiment. In a year or so he was off on a troopship. On June 17, months before the invasion of Morocco and Algeria, Private Taylor and an unrevealed number of his fellow soldiers found themselves off the coast of Africa. They were there to make a peaceful and secret invasion of the Negro republic of Liberia...