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...should Moroccans want a barren little enclave named Ifni, and why should the Spanish want to hang on to it? The answer is a three-letter word. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Door to the Sahara...
France, in mobilizing her efforts, her technology, her capital and her men for prospecting and developing the resources of the Sahara, does not intend to introduce in these areas what you might call a neocolonialism of the desert. On the contrary, she intends to associate the neighboring countries in this huge task of economic and social development, and to bring them to share in the hoped-for results...
...tacitly agreed to leave Ifni to the Spaniards at the time of the 1956 declaration of independence. But Morocco, growing confident in its new nationhood, last August asked Franco to give Ifni back. The demand was part of Morocco's reassertion of its ancient claims on the Sahara region stretching from the Atlantic coast down to French Mauritania (part of French West Africa). "Every grain of the Sahara belongs to Morocco," cried bearded Si Allal el Fassi, chief of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal Party. Guerrillas of the old Moroccan Army of Liberation, no longer occupied with fighting...
...defined frontier. Istiqlal partisans charged that the Spanish were striking roads and villages on the Moroccan side. In Rabat young (28) Crown Prince Moulay Hassan ordered Moroccan troops to shoot back at any plane attacking Moroccan territory, and indicated that Morocco would demand "our door to the Sahara"-that part of the old protectorate south of Ifni still administered by the Spanish as "Southern Morocco...
Authority & Oil. By week's end the fighting between Moroccan nationalists and Spanish colonial forces had spread south to the Spanish Sahara. Moroccan newspapers reported nationalist attacks on a village at the mouth of the Saguia el Hamra (Red River) and Spanish bombing raids on the inland villages of Smara and Sidi Ahmed el Aroussi; more than 200 Moroccans were reported killed...