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Even so, Galvâo's Anti-Totalitarian Front took the regime by surprise. Six of his agents hijacked a Portuguese airliner as it approached Lisbon from Casablanca, dumped thousands of anti-Salazar leaflets over the capital, then flew to Tangier. Had Galvao actually landed last week, he might have met little effective opposition. So suspicious of everyone is Salazar that his soldiers were issued machine guns without bolts and rifles without bullets; fighter planes were grounded with empty gas tanks. But the real threat to the regime came from what, in the world's most durable dictatorship...
...second act opens in Tangier, the Casbah. Ali and the Arabs run through an effective rendition of "The Customer's Always Right," sung earlier on board ship by the purser and stewards. The scene shifts to the ship's nursery and one of the lightest bits of comedy in the entire production...
Courtesy A. Hitler. Assigned to set up a Protestant radio station, beamed at Europe and supported by U.S. funds, was the Rev. Paul E. Freed, 42, a Baptist minister who grew up in Syria and Palestine, where his father was a businessman turned missionary. "We started in Tangier on a shoestring," Freed recalls. "Our budget was around $25,000 a year. Today it's closer to $1,000,000-and it all comes from Protestant churches and other radio stations. Every major denomination is involved, and nowadays we get as much support from European Christian groups as from Americans...
Trans Wrorld Radio, as the mission is called, was forced to leave Tangier in 1959, when Morocco declared that it was about to incorporate the free port. Its new site in Roman Catholic Monaco, near the summer palace of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, has proved to be admirably suited for the operation. The location is nearer Europe's geographical center. Ready and available were broadcasting facilities installed by Adolf Hitler. Trans World rented the installation from Radio Monte Carlo with a ten-year lease, automatically renewable...
Maybe some European colons might mull over the news from Morocco next door. After dodging French naval patrols, the Communist freighter Bulgaria docked at the Moroccan harbor of Tangier, unloaded 3,400 tons of arms, including 14,000 rifles and automatic weapons, which were promptly shipped to the town of Oudjda near the Algerian border. Though the Moroccans last week insisted that the arms were for their own use, French intelligence agents believe the shipment was paid for by Red China. If so, it is the first tangible result of the recent visit of F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas to Peking...