Word: tangier
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With sherifian majesty, Sidi Mohamed Ben Moulay Youssef Ben Moulay El-Hassan-Scion of the Prophet, Commander of the Faithful, Sultan of Morocco-singed the mustache of the Dictator of Spain. From the international court in Tangier he dismissed Judge Fernando Malmussi, a Fascist loyd to Benito Mussolini. With equal majesty, he appointed an anti-Fascist Italian to sit with a Briton, a Frenchman and a Spaniard-thereby giving the court an anti-Fascist majority. The new judge was Giovanni Apostoli, recommended by the Bonomi Government with the approval of London and Paris...
...Sultan is the nominal autocrat of three countries, in each of which somebody else is the real boss: French Morocco, the northwest shoulder of Africa; Spanish Morocco, its epaulet; and Tangier (overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar), the chip on the shoulder...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reported to the House of Commons last week that at long last Franco's Government had kicked Germans and Japanese out of their listening posts in Tangier, across from Britain's busy Gibraltar, overlooking the Mediterranean gateway. The Axis consulates, Madrid said, had been "closed and sealed." Franco recently agreed to cut his country's shipment of wolfram (for steel alloys) to Germany. But he may ship as much as ever to Spain's little Iberian neighbor Portugal, which still supplies wolfram and other essential materials to Germany...
...security reasons," other instances of Spanish courtesy to the Allies cannot be published. But Spanish newspapers now publish Allied war communiques, Allied war photographs; the radio carries advertisements of American goods. In a recent test of strength the Allies "persuaded" Franco to clear Axis shipping spies out of Tangier on the North African coast...
...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...