Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warmed up on the tarmac of Casablanca's airport. A fleet of black Citroëns prowled determinedly through the French quarters of Casablanca, Rabat, Meknés and Fez picking up passengers for the flight. All through the small hours one morning last week agents of Morocco's new secret police force knocked at door after door and curtly informed sleepy French colons to get dressed; they were to be expelled from Morocco immediately...
Before the roundup was over, a phone jangled furiously in the Rabat bedroom of André Dubois, France's tall, elegant Ambassador to Morocco. When Dubois picked up the receiver a Frenchman serving with the Moroccan police excitedly reported that the newly independent Moroccan government was rounding up more than 50 members and alleged sympathizers of Présence Française, the organization of diehard colons who cannot reconcile themselves to Moroccan independence. A week earlier Moroccan police had discovered that Présence Française was circulating leaflets which urged Morocco's Berber minority...
...postwar army chief of staff, Juin ordered the repression of the first big Algerian rebellion in 1945 with a ruthless vigor that the French colonists still remember with admiration and the Algerians with bitterness. As Governor General of Morocco, his remedy for unrest was to propose the exile of Sultan Mohammed V. "Colonies are not made by virgins" was his motto. For years he had been the most stubborn opponent of all concessions, the loudest champion of the colonists' cherished contention that Algeria is a permanent part of France, the most violent critic of any suggestion of a separate...
...sale steel sheets coated with decorative, pliable vinyl plastic. The premium-priced sheets can be stamped directly into finished parts for automobiles, appliances, furniture and other products that now are cast, then enameled. By eliminating finishing, overall costs are cut. U.S. Steel foresees "plastic steel" automobiles with simulated white morocco or tan cowhide finish...
Athens. Replacing Cavendish Cannon, named first U.S. ambassador to Morocco (TIME, July 23): George Venable Allen, 52, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs. Troubleshooter Allen, onetime North Carolina schoolteacher and newspaper reporter (Asheville Times), longtime (26 years) Foreign Service officer, has had delicate assignments before-as ambassador in Iran (1946-48) when the West successfully pressed the Soviets to withdraw from Azerbaijan, in Belgrade in 1949, after Tito had been kicked out of the Cominform and was looking to the West for aid. His present mission: to make a new stab at reducing tensions...