Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerged as a delightful fop. Robert Evans made the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results; the only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as Earle Hyman did so tellingly last year...
...scheme to his fellow Arabs in the Hotel Pierre suite of Abdel Khalek Hassouna, Secretary-General of the Arab League, a moribund outfit invented in 1945 by the British and captured by the Egyptians. Fawzi's audience-the representatives of the eight Arab League nations* plus Tunisia and Morocco-personified all the quarrels which have rent the Arab world for 40 years. And some of the quarrels persisted at the meeting. But before long the beauty of Fawzi's plan had turned the meeting into an old-fashioned Arab love feast. ("You could practically smell the camel roasting...
...General Eisenhower's political assistant in North Africa after the invasion (his British counterpart on Ike's staff was Harold Macmillan), Murphy masterminded U.S. negotiations with Vichy's devious Admiral Darlan, helped procure a ceasefire in Algeria and Morocco, saved thou sands of U.S. and British soldiers' lives -and was severely criticized by U.S. liberals. Sample: "He is an Irish Catholic," said the New Republic. "Obviously his relations with the extreme right in French politics were warm." Dwight Eisenhower felt differently. He awarded Murphy the Distinguished Service Medal, later wrote of him: "Affable, friendly, exceedingly shrewd...
...thundering cries of nationalism that rocked North Africa have failed to disrupt the lands to the south and west. Even Mauritania's powerful Emir of Trar-za, absolute ruler of 50,000 warriors, who stunned Paris by swearing allegiance to the King of Morocco last April, has declared: "No one can say that France has exploited Mauritania. On the contrary, it has been for her a burden." Most of French West Africa's present leaders want France to carry the burden for a long time to come-and France willingly does so in the firm belief that, with...
...Fanfani prepared to leave for Washington to confer this week with President Eisenhower, Fanfani's ambitious friend Enrico Mattei, boss of Italy's state oil monopoly, E.N.I., gave the subject one kind of thoughtful attention. He hopped over to Morocco to sign an agreement giving him exploration and exploitation rights for the oil in an null tract in the Tarfaya province in western Sahara. The split: 75% of the profits for Morocco, 25% for Italy's E.N.I...