Word: tangier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moroccan puppet, the Nazis were busy buttering up 63-year-old Moulay Abdelazis, ousted by the French in 1908, with promises of the Sultanate of a United Morocco that would include Tangier as well as French and Spanish Morocco. Germans in Tangier feted his nephew, Moulay-El-Hassan, the Caliph of Spanish Morocco. Backing up the Nazis was the potent ultra-nationalist Watan party, who want a unified Morocco...
Reports like these keyed all too well with word that the Germans were in virtual control of the International Zone of Tangier, that they were building airports in southern Spain within half an hour's flight of Gibraltar...
...Museum in a total of 126 lots, from all the continents of the world, according to the report. Included were primitive materials from the Solomon Islands, a type series of potsherds from India, a set of carved wooden masks from Liberia, Paleolithic and Neolithic specimens from excavations in Tangier, gold-plated copper figurines and pottery from Panama, archaeological material from Central America, and specimens of pottery and carved stone vases from the Uluo Valley, Honduras...
...dropped monster explosions upon it. British warships in the anchorage on the Rock's west side were prime targets, the sea power that keeps Italy corked into the Mediterranean. The Italians claimed they hit and fired some of the ships. Watchers in Algeciras across the bay and in Tangier across the Strait could not tell, but they could see and hear the Rock erupt an inferno of anti-aircraft fire, and they saw no planes come down. Several blazes lit the scene after the heaviest raid and Spanish sources said hits had been made on docks, barracks, the radio...
Meantime, he hastened the evacuation of 16,000 non-combatants from Gibraltar town. His wife and some 400 others went to Funchal, Madeira. A contingent of 300 were sent across the Strait to Tangier. As ships could be brought for them, others were to go to the Bahamas and Canada. Ships arriving brought supplies and soldier reinforcements that increased the Rock's garrison to above...