Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-bitten little soldier for the swarthy politician of the white tie was deep-seated and violent. It led many people in many capitals to speculate that Weygand might desert Vichy for Great Britain. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance's chubby, energetic Jay Allen flew to Marrakech, Morocco, scooped the world's press on Weygand's present political intentions: "I cannot give you answers to questions like these," snapped the General, brushing Newsman Allen's prepared list aside. "There is, however, something I want to say. ... I am here to serve my country. That country...
...French Fascist Jacques Doriot, Pierre Etienne Flandin (notorious for cabling Hitler congratulations after Munich), Marcel ("Die for Danzig?") Deat, Super-Cop Adrien Marquet; use of French naval bases by the German Fleet; surrender to Germany of the League of Nations mandate over Syria; cession of Alsace-Lorraine, French Morocco, Tunisia, the Riviera; German use of French native troops in Equatorial Africa to take the Sudan from the rear; peace drives; war drives; the kitchen sink...
Then the group conferred. Herr Hitler undoubtedly explained the Axis plans for Greece, and presumably there were words about Gibraltar and Spanish bases in Morocco. Herr Hitler dined and wined the Spaniard, and told him that he was going to present the Spanish Catholic Church with some gorgeous holy vessels, pictures and statues (stolen from Poland). Then the heroes parted...
...seized were an immediate gain for 70,000,000 Nazi gullets, fine for a short war. But Europe has never been able to feed herself, let alone secure a balanced diet, without importing great quantities of foodstuffs, fodder, fertilizers. France made up most of her deficit with imports from Morocco. The Balkan States have long been selling their small exportable food surplus to Germany. If there is surplus food in Russia with all her great grain fields, it is a State secret. As a whole the territory that Hitler took merely added to his domains more territory that cannot feed...
...gain this Armistice, France had to let Germany occupy: 1. Nothing but Alsace-Lorraine. 2. A strip of territory along the English Channel. 3. All French territory in Europe. 4. The entire northern half of the country. 5. Syria, French Somaliland, Morocco...