Word: tangier
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...Moslems. A bomb exploded last week on a crowded dockside in Tangier, Spanish Morocco, 40 miles southwest of Gibraltar. When the smoke cleared away, 25 persons lay dead, 60 hurt. The bombs blew apart the luggage of a departing British official. As if by magic, yelling Arabs appeared from nowhere with baskets filled with rocks, began stoning the windows of British business houses. To the radio hopped Axis spokesmen, claiming that the exploded luggage had disgorged British propaganda. London called the episode an obvious Axis trick...
...correspondents in Syria and Tangier were not surprised to learn that German engineers quietly arrived at the naval base in Tunisia's Bizerte, that work on the new Trans-Sahara railroad was redoubled, that the onetime international settlement of Tangier was now fortified by Spanish soldiers. They recognized Berlin's objective: to drive a wedge of Nazified northwest Africa between the U.S. and her allies in Libya and the Middle East...
Though he has gobbled up Tangier (under German auspices), Franco is presumably less land-hungry today than he is worried about hunger, poverty and disease in Spain itself. At the same time, if German troops should march through Spain, it would be preferable to have his old Army friends on the reception committee instead of his brother-in-law's pro-Nazi Falange...
...press his advantage, but he put such pressure on the Government of old Marshal Pétain that France expected to hear any day that it was committed to all-out collaboration. Spain took a cautious step and assumed control of customs at once international Tangier, across the Strait from Gibraltar. Portugal was in terror of invasion, expected a grab at the Azores and Cape Verde Islands...
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...