Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Africa's native leaders, none has been a stauncher friend to France than Morocco's King Mohammed V. Though it is now two years since Morocco became independent...
Across the Atlantic Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm was already brewing a world war that then seemed destined to start over Morocco. At the Algeciras Conference in 1906, T.R.-far from claiming neutrality -unexpectedly threw U.S. support against Germany, and the Kaiser backed down...
...unemployed in a population of 3,800,000. His overriding concern is to get the Algerian problem settled while preserving Tunisian independence from France. "Basically and profoundly," he says, "we are with the West." He still hopes to see "our Algerian brothers" free and joined with Tunisia and Morocco in a North African federation backed by France...
...Ifni. Ifni is not much but rocky rubble and scrub, but its single city, Sidi Ifni (pop. 10,000), has been used by the Spanish as the seat of the governor of all its desert provinces-Ifni, Rio de Oro, Spanish Sahara, as well as the part of southern Morocco that they have continued to rule on the ground that King Mohammed's government is unable to establish its authority there. Last week, with Moroccans encircling Sidi Ifni's tightly held perimeter, Madrid merged all the rest of its West African colonies under one military governor...
...Morocco's King Mohammed V declines to admit that the 12,000-man Liberation Army even exists. To repeated protests of the army's "aggressions," complained Spain's War Minister Antonio Barroso recently, all Spain has got back "are replies that Spain was responsible for them...