Word: tangier
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...Over to Tangier. Convincing the other Sultan, Moulay Arafa, was a task for another French general, Pierre Georges Boyer de Latour, the new French Resident-General in Morocco. Last week De Latour called on the old man in his dazzling white palace at Rabat and delicately indicated that the time had come to leave...
...French handed him a paragraph to be inserted in a speech he was making in Tangier: "Look especially to France, lovers of liberty ..." But when it came time to deliver the speech, Ben Youssef ignored the French paragraph, appealed instead for the solidarity of Islam. The French were furious. To-teach the Sultan a lesson, they appointed an imperious and impetuous new Resident General : Alphonse Juin, topflight field soldier and veteran of long years of service in North Africa. An old-fashioned imperialist, Marshal Juin had his own Moroccan to set up against Ben Youssef: El Glaoui...
...Date Fatidique, glittering Casablanca was closed down like a morgue. The wealthy fled to Tangier, the poor boarded up their doors. In the medinas from Fez to Marrakech, white-kepied Legionnaires set up machine guns and searchlights, covering the street intersections. Nationalist agitators sawed down telephone poles and tore down the street lamps, to ensure darkness for their escape...
Married. Richard S. Aldrich, 52, theatrical producer (The Moon Is Blue), currently deputy director of the Foreign Operations Administration Mission in Spain; and Elizabeth Boyd, 29; he for the third time (his second: the late actress Gertrude Lawrence, about whom he wrote the current bestseller, Mrs. A.)', in Tangier, Morocco...
...John Carter Vincent was the last Foreign Service man to be diplomatically diverted to Tangier (TIME, March 12, 1951) in the face of senatorial pyrotechnics...