Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glossy, soft-chinned Comte de Paris, 34, exiled Bourbon pretender to the French throne, would dearly love to have Vichy give it to him even if no real power went with it. Last week he addressed an epistle to all Frenchmen from Rabat, Morocco. Said...
...Nazi-controlled Paris press howled for just that, and castigated General Weygand for going no further "than an oath of loyalty to the Marshal." It was rumored that two Nazi Panzer divisions with 1,000 tanks had crossed from Spain to Spanish Morocco, ready to force Hitler's will, if necessary, on Vichy's North African forces...
...from Libya and possibly the Middle East and Turkey toward Egypt and Suez; 2) from Libya down through French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola (by transport plane) toward British South Africa; 3) from Spain and Spanish Morocco across Weygand's Morocco and West Africa (by persuasion or force) toward Dakar. The road to Dakar has already been improved and Dakar is the strongest fortress on the Atlantic coast of Africa...
Born. To Henri, Count of Paris, France's Bourbon-Orleans pretender, and Isabelle of Orleans & Bragance: twins, Michel and Jacques, their seventh and eighth children; in French Morocco...
...Iran. 3. Syria. 4. Tunisia. 5. Morocco...