Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armed with France's written pledge to give independence to Syria and Lebanon, F.D.R. in 1945 assured Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud that he would back the Syrians and Lebanese by all means short of outright force. And during the Casablanca Conference Roosevelt insisted on dining with Morocco's Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef, then subject to France, pointedly told the Sultan: "A sovereign government should retain considerable control over its own resources." Most Frenchmen date the Sultan's stubborn drive toward ultimate independence from that...
Frenchmen still live there, 29,000 still serve in the Moroccan bureaucracy. King Mohammed has let France keep 20 bases and 35,000 troops in Morocco. This devotion to the French dream of "interdependence" between Morocco and France has exposed the King to incessant and increasing protests from Morocco's vociferous ultranationalists, who abhor all dealings with their country's former imperial masters. In reply, King Mohammed has counseled patience, negotiations and trust...
...last week Mohammed turned on France. He flatly demanded the withdrawal of all French forces in Morocco. To show that he meant business, his army halted three French military trains, thereby interrupting the convenient arrangement under which 50,000 troops and great quantities of materiel have been shipped into Algeria from France's Moroccan garrisons in the past two years. A week earlier, when news seeped out of the desert that French and Spanish forces were conducting a joint campaign to clear their Saharan possessions of Moroccan irregulars, Mohammed V launched on a tour of Morocco's southern...
Mohammed's sudden claim to Mauritania and his anger over the Sakiet bombing had no logical link except that of history. But Mohammed made clear their linkage in his own mind by juxtaposing the two subjects in an interview this week with French newsmen. Morocco, he told them, "cannot maintain its present policy of restraint if the Algerian problem does not receive a solution which gives satisfaction to the national aspirations of the Algerian people and recognizes their liberty and sovereignty." In a defiant gesture of solidarity with Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba in his quarrel with France...
After four years of construction, U.S. bases in Spain are 80% completed. The network: three full-fledged SAC bases (at Torrejon, Zaragoza, Moron), completing a chain that stretches 1,200 miles from England to Morocco; a supply base at San Pablo, near Seville; a big sea and air base at Rota, commanding the Atlantic side of the Strait of Gibraltar; a 485-mile underground fuel pipeline linking the bases. Total cost of the bases when completed: $340 million...