Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the 19th century, some Jews began to drift back to Spain, followed in the 1930s and '40s by refugees from Naziism, and more recently by Jewish migrants from Morocco. Today there are about 3,000 Jews in Spain (pop. 29,662,000), about 200 of them in Madrid. During the past decade, with tentative approval from the Franco regime, Madrid's Jews have held makeshift services in a room that became known, after its owner, as "Lawenda's basement"; occasionally, they managed to rent space in the Castellano Hilton for the High Holy Days. Then, five...
Nudge from Washington. No less important, De Gaulle had many a Foreign Office in his corner. From the U.S., Secretary of State Christian Herter gave the rebels a nudge with his statement that De Gaulle's "far-reaching declaration" promised "a just and peaceful solution for Algeria." Even Morocco's King Mohammed V and Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, long among the rebels' strongest supporters, were urging the F.L.N. to give De Gaulle "a constructive answer." Glumly, F.L.N. leaders faced the fact that the resolution condemning French policy in Algeria, which they had confidently expected...
...turned to commercial art and book-jacket illustration after the war. An unashamed copyist, who perfected his techniques by long hours of studying the masterpieces of Velasquez, Rembrandt and Rubens in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he did his first cover for TIME in April 1957 (Morocco's King Mohammed...
...Love for Teacher. Ben Barka himself insists that he fully supports popular King Mohammed ("Morocco is indeed fortunate to have such an enlightened King"). And early in his career he was in high enough favor with the King to be appointed tutor to Crown Prince Moulay Hassan. But there is bad blood between Ben Barka and his former pupil, who has sided openly with Istiqlal's right wing in the current political dispute. And as commander in chief of the army, Moulay Hassan has troops to back...
...long as King Mohammed survives, Ben Barka and his National Union are unlikely to challenge the palace directly. But should young Moulay Hassan succeed to the throne, or should he use the army .to make trouble for Ben Barka, Morocco's absolute monarchy would be pitted face to face with Morocco's most adroit and formidable political organizer...