Word: tangier
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...negotiations up to the eleventh hour, were definitely settled by France conceding full facilities for trade in all her colonies and protectorates, of which Morocco is the principal. Mindful, undoubtedly, of the attempts of Kaiser Wilhelm to create trouble in Morocco, exploits since dignified as the "incidents of Tangier and Agadir," the French refused to permit German nationals to reside in the protectorate. The assent of the Reich was obtained only after the French had agreed to suppress the 12% supertax on all German products sold to Morocco...
Subjects presumably discussed at the Leghorn meeting: 1) what attitude Britain will take in the event that Italy backs Spain's claim to Tangier (TIME, Aug. 23); 2) the progress of Italo-British pressure upon the Government of Abyssinia to grant British concessions at the headwaters of the Nile, and Italian concessions in Abyssinia near Italian Somaliland (TIME, Aug. 9); 3) the problems of Italo-British relationship engendered by Premier Mussolini's intrigues to form a pro-Italian bloc of nations in the Balkans...
...Tangier, the chief port of Morocco, an international city at once quaint and modern, and strategically important because directly opposite the British base at Gibraltar, became once again last week the subject of contention among the nations. Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain set the pot of contention a-bubbling by despatching to Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U. S., a declaration that the control of Tangier by Spain is necessary to prevent the importation of contraband munitions by Moroccans rebellious against the regime of Spain in Spanish Morocco. The Powers to whom this declaration...
...seat. Brazil, the popular villain of this obstruction, gave notice of her resignation from the League-effective two years hence (TIME, June 21). Spain, equally bent on obtaining a permanent seat, launched a campaign of pressure against the League Powers which culminated last week in the reopening of the Tangier question. (See INTERNATIONAL...
...Franco-Spanish mutual apportionment. Thus, in respect to Morocco alone, the new treaty looms ominously for France. Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain went so far as to intimate to correspondents last week that Spain will demand for herself the now Franco-Anglo-Spanish-neutralized Zone of Tangier, Morocco...