Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facto Axis partnership and full-fledged fascism, the mounting evidence made it impossible. For it remained clear last week that Germany, far from being "alone," was enjoying a good part of France's agricultural and industrial output and the military use of French-controlled territory in Syria and Morocco. Moreover, if the Nazis had not got the French Navy, they apparently controlled the perhaps even more helpful French merchant marine...
...much for rumors. These were facts: > The Nazis were already in French-mandated Syria en route to Iraq and the Suez Canal. Last week Vichy lamely excused the alighting of Nazi planes on Syrian airports as "forced landings." > > The Nazis were already heavily fortifying French Morocco, where General Maxime Weygand, Commander of the French North African Army, has winked at Nazi activities. The Moroccan port of Casablanca, on the Atlantic, was already in use as a Nazi submarine base...
Procurement of bookbinding supplies recently has been a particularly knotty problem, for the war has affected the whole industry. With the United States almost completely dependent on foreign imports for the best grades of leather bindings, shipments of such goods as calf, pigskin, Levant, and morocco have practically ceased; already one ship with some of its cargo destined for the Harvard Bindery has been sunk...
...square feet of leather in storage represents the hides of more than 400 animals. One need not fear, however, that all these animals died for the sake of the Harvard Bindery. Morocco leather, for example, is obtained from goats which are a staple food of northern Africa, and all of them would probably be slaughtered in any event...
...ourselves also. . . ." Last week Vichy also issued a warning against a U.S. attempt to seize Dakar on the West African coast. Dakar in the hands of the London-Washington Axis would facilitate defense of Britain's embattled maritime lifeline around Africa. Nazi agents were reported swarming in French Morocco. And the Nazis were quietly but speedily building railroad links across northwest Africa which will connect Oran, on the Mediterranean, with Dakar...