Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was much evidence that such a campaign was nearly ready. According to the British, General Weygand in Algeria had been forced to wink while German troops and supplies had passed through the colony on the way to the Libya front. In French Morocco, Nazis on the Armistice Commission had control of all gasoline supplies and airports, were building more landing fields and importing more Nazi technicians and "tourists" as fast as they could...
...Moroccan puppet, the Nazis were busy buttering up 63-year-old Moulay Abdelazis, ousted by the French in 1908, with promises of the Sultanate of a United Morocco that would include Tangier as well as French and Spanish Morocco. Germans in Tangier feted his nephew, Moulay-El-Hassan, the Caliph of Spanish Morocco. Backing up the Nazis was the potent ultra-nationalist Watan party, who want a unified Morocco...
...previous record was superb. A graduate of St. Cyr, French equivalent of West Point, he had served on Marshal Foch's staff in World War I, was twice cited for bravery. He served in 1926 under Marshal Petain against famed Rebel Abdel-Krim in French Morocco. He was for a while Chief of Staff under General Maxime Weygand, was Vice President of the Supreme War Council, a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor...
Escorted by the Vichy destroyer Simoun, four French freighters nosed out from Casablanca, French Morocco, into the Atlantic last week, making via the Strait of Gibraltar for Oran, French Algeria. "Stop and submit to search," signaled the British patrol in the Strait, but the Vichy ships ploughed...
...unoccupied France, a move which will either put a leak in the British blockade or bring the French and British Navies into conflict again. In Paris Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan closed a deal under which Germany will help to run French industry (i.e., direct it). From Morocco General Maxime Weygand rushed to Vichy, lunched with Admiral Darlan and assured the new boss that he was no foe of "collaboration." After the luncheon a communique announced that France would defend "any part of her Empire alone." Since Great Britain has forces in Palestine on Syria's frontier...