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This article presents information on the book "The Prince and I," by Marvine Howe. The story of the author's friendship with the prince during the tense years of 1952 and 1953 is the central theme in Marvine Howe's recently published book, "The Prince and I." The author went to the shining new building of Radio Maroc to meet Howe. They talked until her program time. Then the author listened as she interpreted the news in English for the non-French, speakers at the American air force bases, played them a half hour of the newest American jazz. Howe also helped script a morning program to familiarize American military personnel with Morocco.

This article presents information on war history in Europe. Following the occupation of Fez, the capital of Morocco, by France in June, 1911, Germany sent the gunboat Panther to Agadir in early July, 1911, thus precipitating a European crisis which was eventually solved by the elimination of Germany from Morocco in exchange for a slice of French Equatorial Africa; that Russia, with England, sustained France in this crisis; and that throughout the period Russia continued secret negotiations with Germany about spheres of influence in Persia and railroad lines in Turkey connecting with the Bagdad Railway. Russia also was secretly organizing the Balkan League. In the autumn of 1912 the First Balkan War broke out, again almost involving a European war.

This article focuses on freedom movement in Morocco. The French occupation of Morocco goes back to 1912, when the powerful Bank of Paris, alleging high moral motives, induced French diplomacy with the help of military power to force the Sultan of Morocco to sign a treaty depriving him of practically all the rights of a sovereign ruler. In 1930, a group of French-educated intellectuals organized the Istiqlal (Independence) Party. The fight against French rule was held by the Istiqlal alone until 1950, when the Sultan Sidi Mohammed realized that the movement had enough popular support to make an alliance with it worth while.

The article discusses Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco's troubles in Morocco. His error in judging that he could promote independence in the French Morocco without it becoming an issue is becoming evident. The day France came in open conflict with Morocco after Sultan's exile, Franco decided to shift to Spain the U.S. financial aid thinking the decay France. He gave political and diplomatic encouragement to Moroccan Nationalists which didn't work. Repeated statements from the Sultan insisting on Morocco's independence has confused Franco. There has never been anything in Spain more unpopular than war in Africa.

The article presents some political and social updates as of May 4, 1911. The French Government has formally notified, the Powers of its intention to intervene in Morocco. This fact will be immediately seized upon, by the cynical observer and brought into juxtaposition with another bit of military news that has just come out of France. Another update says that in his article in the May issue of the "Scribner's Magazine," on schools and tendencies in art, writer Kenyon Cox refers to the "disappointment" of foreign critics at finding American painters so conservative thoroughly "indigenous" art. He has pleasant things to say of the American artists, especially in landscape, but laments their failure to seize upon distinctively American subjects.

Presents information regarding the French policy in North Africa. Information that France is trying to absorb the Spanish zone and the international zone of Tangier; Information that no great power can have a port opposite that bulwark of Great Britain's farm flung battle line; Information that the immediate cause of the present precarious situation in Morocco is the spectacular triumph of Abd-el-Krim; Information that the Moroccan crisis and its constant mismanagement by the professional politicians was the chief cause of the military coup d'etat in which took place two years ago; Information that during the European War France used 163,602 Negroes from West Africa, and since the War she has established conscription among her millions of black citizens.

The bitter struggle in Morocco between the Riff tribes under resistance leader Muhammad ibn Abd-eI-Krim and the authority of Governor General Hubert Lyautey raises for reexamination of the question of the success of the French colonial experiment in North Africa, especially in relation to the race and color question. France has a deserved reputation of having come closer to solving the color question than any other great Western Power. The situation both within France itself and in her colonies is free from those tragic prejudices, which make Great Britain's dominion in Egypt and India seem so hopeless and form a continual ferment of injustice and conflict in South Africa and in the United States.

The article discusses the events in French North Africa which raises the question of if France can continue to exist as world power. The violence in Morocco coincided with the United Nations discussions on French policy in North Africa. France is boycotting the debate calling it as an interference in its domestic affairs. Many French politicians have warned that they would pull out of Indo-China and even North Atlantic Treaty Organization rather than lose hold on North Africa.

The article analyzes the increased defense spending of the U.S. in Morocco, which is currently under the rule of France. The U.S. as reported, is not only spending on its two naval bases and its air force bombers strips in Morocco, but Morocco is also a big source of strategic materials for the U.S. defense stockpile. However, as stated, the U.S. government needs to keep its eyes on the deteriorating political conditions in Morocco, as its people are demanding independence from French rule.

The most important single element in Morocco's folk culture is its music. Since it always has been a land where illiteracy is the general rule, its production of written literature is negligible. On the other hand, like the Negroes of West Africa, the Moroccans have a magnificent and highly evolved sense of rhythm which manifests itself in the twin arts of music and the dance. Islam, however, does not look with favor upon any sort of dancing, and thus the art of the dance, while being the natural mode of religious expression of the native population, has never been encouraged here. At the same time, the very illiteracy which through the centuries has precluded the possibility of literature has abetted the development of music: the entire history and mythology of the people is clothed in song.

The article focuses on several issues related to international relations. A long vista of trouble between the United States and Canada is opened up to the prophetic eye by a little speech made by Representative Robert Marion La Follette, of Washington, in support of an amendment offered by him to take sheep off the free list. The free admission of these live animals, he declared, would to a large extent put wool on the free list. Canadian sheepmen, he said, would drive thousands of sheep over the line before shearing time, and after shearing them would drive them back into Canada, in the meanwhile selling their wool, duty-free, in the United States. French intervention in Morocco is probably not so imminent as some reports from Paris, France would make it. And this, in spite of the fact that Morocco really does present, today the condition of anarchy, which is the classic excuse for European intervention in the affairs of the lower breeds.

The article presents information on the Moroccan leader Ben Barka. Newspaper reported that the Moroccan leader had been murdered at the villa of the gangster Boucheseiche, that his body was then taken to the nearby Lopez villa. What happened after that nobody seemed to know. The assumption was that the body had been secretly buried, though, oddly enough, no search for it by the police was ever reported. It now seems obvious why there was never any "conclusion" to this murder story; why, from time to time, there appeared "rumors" in the French press that Barka "had been seen" in Morocco; that he was held incommunicado in a prison in southern Morocco.

The success of Operation Dulcinea, which took place aboard the ship Santa Maria, had extraordinary effects on the struggle between the Portuguese dictatorship and an anti-totalitarian front of free Portuguese; but it was, of course, far from decisive. The executors of the plan had meticulously evolved a plan for a second, and complementary operation. This had two parts: the first aimed at covering tracks so that the executors would not be surprised by the numerous Portuguese and Spanish agents Salazar was using to follow the author. They were everywhere: Brazil, Morocco, Senegal, even in Scandinavia. The other part was obviously secret, and aimed at bringing off three consecutive phases, the first of which was Operation Vago, which took place on November 10, 1961, and came off with clockwork precision.

The author focuses on golf in Morocco and relates his experience of meeting King Hassan II as he played golf with former Masters champion, Claude Harmon. According to Harmon, the king originally wanted fellow golfer Tommy Armour but he declined. The author claims that the best golf course in Morocco is Royal Golf de Mohammedia. A 45-hole golf course with clubhouse and cottages, designed by Robert Trent Jones for King Hassan II, is set to be completed in Rabat in February 1971.

The article reports on developments related to the political crisis in Morocco. From the British and French sources, it was reported that Germans were landing troops and constructing fortifications in such strength along the shore of Spanish Morocco as to indicate the intention to take over and occupy the country permanently. However, it was reported on January 11, 1937 by the European newspaper that crisis was over when Adolf Hitler and a French Ambassador pledged to respect Spanish territory.

Back of the indescribable fury of the present contest in northern Morocco are two main sets of rationalizations. Each is perfectly logical in itself. Reasoned out separately, each cause is perfectly just. Yet in the actual situation there are innumerable facts which cannot be harmonized with either. To the French press in Morocco Abd El-Krim is a rebel against the ineffable majesty of the Sultan. Abd El-Krim is not entirely skeptical about the material blessings. Being a Moslem and a Moroccan, however, he dislikes to take his French civilization straight. The idea of a Sultan who is only a glove on a foreign and infidel hand infuriates him.

The war in Morocco continues, exaggerated rumors report large French losses, and all reports agree that the struggle between the French and Abdel Krim, leader of the Riffians, who last year decisively defeated the Spaniards, is likely to be long and arduous. Throughout France the Communists are conducting an aggressive campaign against the war, some Socialists support them, but the parliamentary party has been unable to make up its mind what to do. A letter written by the cabinet chief of Marshal Lyautey, French governor-general of Morocco, to the marshal's nephew in Paris, also throws light upon the situation. The letter, written on May 25, 1925, came somehow into the hands of M. Donut, a Communist deputy, and was read by him in the Chamber on June 9. In it the officer tells how he arranges that the proper- kind of dispatches appear in the Paris press, admits that Marshal Lyautey seized a moment when Abdel Krim was busy with the Spanish to advance his lines, and suggests a prospect of eternal war.

The Western Pact, German disarmament, the evacuation of Cologne, and all the other problems' with which France is concerned are for the time being overshadowed by the war in Morocco. For France is once more at war, much to the dismay of the French people. The public shows intense nervousness. Morocco has sinister associations in the French mind. The French people feel themselves to be started on an adventure of which they cannot see the end. The Communists are exploiting the popular feeling against war for any reason-not-without some success. If the campaign in Morocco goes on much longer, there may be a very serious agitation and a general demand for peace at any price.

The new war in Morocco is aggravating the financial crisis in France. Governor Hubert Lyautey, the governor of Morocco, is the greatest of the French empire-builders. His energy and ability have transformed Morocco in a decade from a protectorate of doubtful value into a firmly held colony. His imagination his linked North Africa with Central region and realized that France is a nation of a hundred million people comprising of three-fifths African. He hopes to build the Spanish zone so that later it would "drop like a ripe fruit into France's lap." Meanwhile, the U.S. reminds France of the debt it owes to the U.S.

The article describes how Morocco has caught in the hands of powerful French settlers. Frenchmen have made and ousted high commissioners at will. Their chief instrument for tile last seven years has been General Juin, now a marshal, with all the racial prejudices. He was made High Commissioner in Morocco in 1947 when French politics under American influence were veering to the right. He remained there till he was transferred to NATO in 1952. He fanned the ancient rivalry between Sultan and Pasha of Marrakesh, El Glaoui and attacked at the Sultan palace and French troops surrounded it, placed a intermediatory government with three hundred local councilors nominated by the French. Sultan was deprived of his religious powers.

The signs of military action are not restricted to the south or to Spanish Morocco. At the same time they are fortifying the Atlantic coast. Probably, in case something goes wrong in Spanish Morocco, to prevent a British landing in the northwest. On November 2, 1942, when the author was sitting in a coffee-house on the Calle de Oria in Gijon, he saw more than twenty camiones carrying artillery intended for the coastal fortifications pass by. New airfields have lately been built. The most recent and most important one, at Aguino de Ribeira, dominates the Galician coast at its vital points.

The article offers an outlook for the political and business conditions of several countries in 1965. The significance of the victory of the Christian Democrat Party of President Eduardo Frei in congressional elections in Chile is noted. The U.S. government intends to offer financing for the expansion plans of copper companies. A scheduled visit to Germany was postponed by King Hassan II of Morocco.

In the view of many observers, a, solemn Anglo-American declaration urging France to adopt and execute a liberal policy toward North Africa is the most useful step that could taken at this critical juncture in France's empire affairs. The French Assembly debate on Algeria, still in progress as this is written, emphasizes Premier's need for backbone. Socialists have proposed a vote of non-confidence which is driving the Premier, who wants to hold on to his job, to seek the support of enemies of the liberal policy he is supposed to represent. Unless the government acquires the courage to get rough with the die-hard imperialists, the situation in neither Algeria nor Morocco is likely to improve.

Reports on the support of Morocco for Algerian independence from French colonialism. Historic solidarity between Morocco and Algeria according to Mehdi ben Barka, a member of the Istiqlal Party executive committee; Awareness of the Moroccan people about Algerian nationalist activities; Contempt to the atrocities of the French troops.

The article reports on developments on the World War II. An economic rehabilitation program in Africa is represented by the U.S. State, Treasury, and Agriculture Departments. The United Nations have stepped in to give economic relief with lend-lease goods pouring into Morocco and Algeria. On the other hand, Spain and Turkey are under a threat of an attack from Germany.

This article presents the author's views on the issue of Americans traveling to Morocco. Americans are once more allowed to fly the coop and sail across the ocean, with no Secretary of State to refuse them a passport unless they swear to an animus revertendi. Once this was not thought un-American. American Felix Mathews found in that unmodern age native Americans scattered unafraid through the four quarters of the globe. In the tepid sea-trip from New York to Texas the author and Felix Mathews talked while Jupiter Lights were heaving into view. The land opposite was Spanish when Felix sailed; and his talk roved from China, where he mutinied in has fourteenth year to California, which was also Spanish then.

The article reports that the Arab population in Morocco had turned to the U.S. in the demand of full independence from the French. Arab relations and faith in the U.S. goes back to November 1942 when the U.S. Army went ashore at Casablanca to fight Vichy forces. However, Algeria-born French General Alphonese Juin is committed to keeping Morocco under the control of France.

Focuses on a case charging Jack V. Maniaci, a young Warner Brothers Records promoter from California, for smuggling quantities of hashish from Morocco to Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Overview of the lawsuit; Confession of Maniaci; Ruling of the court regarding the case.

The article discusses the attitude of Germany with Morocco at the time of international crisis. Everybody finds it hard to get accustomed to the tone of German diplomacy. Germany's bitter complaint is that she is constantly misunderstood. Two years ago the French and the German Foreign Office were in amicable communication. A treaty concerning Morocco had been concluded which was regarded as putting matters on a lasting basis and opening the way to friendly footing. In 1905 Germany used Morocco as a means of testing the friendship between France and Great Britain, and secondly, of protesting against the policy of isolation which she thought was being put into play against her.

The article calls for the U.S. government to support Morocco as it tries to gain control of the Sahara desert area from Spain.

The article informs that the New City of Fez is a model protectorate in the classical Roman sense, a dream without culture. It gives one an idea of what the world would have looked like if Germany had won the war. A mere 14,000 French, have created for their exclusive use one of the most lovely and modern cities ever built. But the white European comes for profits and profits are made from a cheap, non-unionized, inferior race labor, market. Force may be legitimatized into right through time, but the French started their occupation of Morocco in 1907 and only completed it in the middle 30's. Their arguments are particularly farcical now that Libya has received its independence.