Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algeria would also get "federal" status under his new order. But he was already showing a willingness to make major concessions to restore peace in North Africa. France promised to withdraw all troops within a month from eleven garrison posts scattered through the south and east of Morocco, and seems to be prepared to evacuate all its bases in Tunisia save the great naval installations at Bizerte (as proposed by the Anglo-American "good offices" team, which can expect no credit...
...were plainly disenchanted by De Gaulle. They were angered by his insistence that the insurrectionary Public Safety Committees must get out of politics, and by his refusal to endorse their plan for complete integration of Algeria into France. They were alarmed by the report that, as a gesture to Morocco's King Mohammed V, De Gaulle was trying to find a graceful way to release Rebel Chieftain Mohammed ben Bella, whom the French had kidnaped off a Moroccan plane late in 1956 (TIME...
...Gaulle's republican constitution would be 1) "universal suffrage is the source of all power"; 2) effective separation of legislative and executive powers; 3) Cabinet responsibility to Parliament. It would also include clauses establishing a new solemn relationship between France and "the peoples associated with France"-presumably including Morocco and Tunisia...
Minister of State: Louis Jacquinot, 59, an Independent (conservative), former Minister of the Navy. Angry critic of the parliamentary "gravediggers of our Empire," whom he blamed for the loss of Indo-China, Tunisia. Morocco, Jacquinot also charged that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were "in league" to rob France of North Africa. A longtime bachelor, he married a wealthy widow five years ago at the time of his unsuccessful bid to become President of France...
...sixth-and is still rising. Its volume jumped from $1.5 billion in 1946 to $8.25 billion last year; its exports of industrial equipment have increased twentyfold. Today the Soviet Union has trade agreements with some 31 countries outside the Iron Curtain, and in the last year alone added Morocco, Tunisia, Cambodia, Japan and Ceylon to its list...