Word: tangier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cosmopolitan Tangier-an international zone until Franco grabbed it in 1940-pro-Ally Arabs and Jews have been flogged and imprisoned; Franco's police picketed the British Tangier Gazette and halted its publication. After British Consul General A. D. F. Gascoigne called on General Uriarte, Spanish Governor General of the zone, the Gazette reappeared, and General Uriarte announced that "the German-inspired" anti-Jewish campaign would stop, all arrested Jews would be freed...
London's Daily Telegraph reported: the Franco Government has notified U.S. Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes that it must have more aviation gasoline. If the U.S. failed to deliver, Spain would not permit Portuguese planes to use Tangier, the onetime North African international zone, which Spanish troops occupied in 1940. Thus the only daily mail service linking London, Lisbon, Tangier and other African points would be severed...
Plot & Promise. General Henri Giraud last week dredged up a plot to usurp power and install the youthful Pretender, the Comte de Paris, as head of a North African kingdom. One guess was that the Comte would be shipped back to his pig farm in Tangier...
...nationwide fight for union leadership." Months before it happened, Boddy foresaw the German-Russian alliance. Last September he was on the button again. Wrote Boddy in his daily Views of the News column: " . .. Another great movement will be a mechanized force dispatched from Gibraltar across the narrow channel to Tangier and from there along the coast of North Africa toward Tripoli. Now there you have the pattern of a possible Allied offensive...
...Vichy looked across France's borders, rumors came that if the Allies move on Casablanca, Italy will move on Tunis, Spain on Tangier and Morocco. Such moves might be called friendly. But Vichy remembered Czecho-Slovakia's friendly neighbors...