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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...
...concerts, was unruffled by the wet evening. He knew that of the hardy hundreds who braved the rain, some were there to hear the light, pleasant band numbers: a grand march, a Strauss waltz, a fantasy for cornet. Others came for the tangier items by modern composers: Aaron Copland's An Outdoor Overture (led by the composer), a suite for band by the late British composer Gustav Hoist, works by Percy Grainger, Philip James, Stravinsky. Bandmaster Goldman caters to varied tastes, puts on music undreamed-of in oldtime band-concert days, when the Poet and Peasant Overture...