Word: tetuan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the zone's disenchanted nationalists gave Spanish Morocco its first taste of terrorism in years: a bomb burst in a Tetuan cafe, another was hurled at a bus. Demonstrators shouting for "independence and unity" stormed through Arcila...
...terraced city of Tetuan, 10.000 Arabs and Berber tribesmen chanted Viva Espana! and begged Spain's help in throwing off 50 years of French authority in Morocco. In Madrid. Falangist hoodlums stoned the British embassy; in Seville, they screamed "Franco! Franco! We want Gibraltar." All last week, in an outburst of diplomatic orneriness, Spain set out to antagonize its neighbors...
Troubled Morocco is a hybrid North African protectorate where France nominally holds overall authority through a puppet sultan but in turn sublets the sultan's power to Spain and a caliph in a ninth of the country. In Tetuan, tribesmen gathered last week in a vast assembly, ostensibly to "express gratitude" to their Spanish overseers. Instead, apparently with the foreknowledge of the Spaniards, the day was turned into a hate-France holiday...