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AFTERMATH IN MOROCCO
\Vhy did the Moors join ,General'
Franco and shed their 'blood in a
Spanish cause? ,Admittedly, the lead-
ers .af the Moslem fraternity were
with him. The nominal position of
their chief is that of Caliph, or reprc-
sentative prince, .of the Sultan; but
the fact that the present Sultan is a
Youth held in subjection by the
French iResident General—he is often
referred to as the 'puppet Sultan—has
permitted the Cal'ip'h of the Spanish
zone to achieve a considerable meas-
ure of independence.
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would make this position definite and
probably permanent, with itnproved
prestige and reward for the Caliph
and his advisers. It would doubtless
also involve a wide measure of auton-
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such consideration in Tangier, where
they have their own .court•e and local
administration, and there is much to
be said. even on general grounds, for
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the extension of this system else-
where. But w'hv did the individual
Berbers, for whom one Caid is much
like another consent voluntarily to
leave their homes and risk the hor-
rors of war in an alien land? I put
that .question to many Moors ,of my
own acquaintance, and since they all
had the same answer,• I .cane to be-
lieve in it. It was simple, typical and
convincing: "They are happy to go.
They say the Spaniards caine here
and killed 'them; now they go there
and 'kill the Spaniards." 'And the Pure
proved the greater because it includ-
ed two loaves of bread per day and
some FI'assani dollars '(hard to conte
by at home) for the family,
'fltat was the start. Soon the Moors
saw in it the germ of a holy war.
\\'hen they found the Loyalists kill-
ing priests and destroying .churches,
their primitive minds took another cu-
rious but comprehensible tarn, They
argued that if the enemy thus treated
their own religion, they tvould .make
short work of the imams and mos-
ques of Morocco. So it because for
theta a war 'between Theism and
Atheism, and they waged it not for
C'heistendom, 'hut for religion, for
Clod, for Allahl And behind it all was
the knowledge that, despite the sorry
past, they lived more or less happily
with the Spaniard's, while their breth-
ren in the French zone went in dread
of their French masters.
The French would doubtless view
the whole outlook with greater equ-
animity were they less anxious about
the position in their own protectorate.
Opinions may dined about their syst-
em of colonial government. which
some writers have compared with
that of Britain. They do not, like the
Spaniards in the adjoining zone,
mingle with the Moors. although the
Moors are a people of -much culture
and dignity; they ]told themselves
aloof, leave the existing towns un-
improved and undeveloped and !,ui1
for themselves new,French town. .11
a respectable distance from the nat-
ives' towns. They have made magni-
ficent military roads, which are little
used by the 'Moors, who have few
crops and little merchandise to trans-
port, and there is usually a dirt track
alongside. which is dutch preferred by
•the donkey and cannel of the indigene.
They have constructed a modern
'French town, with impressive factor-
ies, and a. magnificent port, at Casa-
blanca. -the latter at a cost of some
.tlitd5,0'010,000—but (there is not yet suf-
ficient trade in the country to make
the enterprise prdfitable. Such agricul-
tural development as exists is princip-
ally in the 'ha'nd's of imported French
.colonists, who are generally dissatis-
fied with their lot, and one ,quarter of
the ,entire white population is in the
,Government service. What cannot 'be
questioned, however, is that, while the
French 'rule is stern and rude, with
no sentimental :nonsense about it,
there is under the resigned e.rterior
of the Moors a sullen, smoldering dis-
content: ,Froin time to time this flares
up, as it did a few ,weeks ago, when
mass deutonstra'tioes organized 'by the
Moslem 'Commmittee of 'A'ction were
staged 'simultaneously in Fez, Rabat
and Casablanca. , The local ,French
press did not attempt to minimize the
impprtance of these demonstrations
they saw •in then- the first signs of
open rebellion and called for its sup-
pression with a firm Band. The move -
meet has not been suppressed, It is
likely to grew stronger under the
pulse df increasinz taxation, rising
casts orliving and nationalistic propa-
ganda. The Mcors are, of course, ac
customed to autocratic institutions
and government: they de pile Com-
munism and Popular 'Fronts as anti -
religious and indicative of eveai Bess.
They read the newspapers and • note
the troubles in .France with satisfac-
tion. They never forget they were
once independent, attd watch' -the suc-
cess of nationalists in India, Iraq;
Syria attcl Egypt, w'aitieg their turn
with true 'Oriental patience. and' ,philo-
sophy, 1 f, therefore. •General Franco
grants the Spanish Moors anything
akin to .the measure of self-govern-
ment enjoyed, for example. in Tang-
ier, the demand fur insular conces-
sion: in the French zone near become
formidable.. That is ,the kernel of
-French concern. 'l'Itat is why, some
months ago, they seized upon a slend-
er pretest to close the frontier be-
tween the French and Spanish zones,
Their policy has :seen all in the direc-
tion of strengthening their supremacy,
and they intend it s,mte day to. cul-
minate in the evolution of Morocco
from a French protectorate to an in-
tegral part of tic. French 'i=mpure„ nn
aided by existing international enn-
.t:. u'ns and- restrictions.- Hence, their
concern lest any - development in
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decisions—which is technically icor-
rex, .but logically disputable, for pre-
eieey- as France and Spain, respect-
cely, govern the French and S•panis'h
...:1 •> ee rhe :otthority in Tangier
ehiellr "f representatives Of
IIr'tai:t. France. Spain, Italy, P'ortu
.,_:id the Netheriaut'Is, In the stress
31'. wa'r't oar, it,.;tever, there was
• hackie, f.,r tierujany's protest, ,
French diplomacy established a
r ahicit. t. the present, she has
n s:,'taitiinet.
"Cr r'-t'nt•'e e4. t't,• 'muggier sentence
e smarted. While other na-
ectained ti it special; status and
tile German Consulate Go-
:lee
o-we . seized and handed over to
,,fficials. No Ger-
vrls allowed t, remain in Tang-.
' more t14,,n 24 inure without
pert u sign of tete \loroe
. r.q cl1 ) a•tthorities. No
I i property. No German '
iestitntions remained. ']'here were
t_r.tish. French, Italian and. Spanish
...;:late,., post tffice., judges. ad-
. niett tt,,r;, schools, and hospitals--
but
ospitals—but nothing German save the years-
old memory of tate ex -Kaiser sturnp-
i.tg along the quay and proudly de -
daring that he would discuss Ger-
man interests in \Morocco only with
its "absolutely independent sover-
eign." Even when the Spanish civil
Liar broke out, and' the 'Government
and insurgent ships contended for su-
premacy in the Straits of Gibraltar,
nobody, wth the exception of the
iGerntans. was •thitrlaing much about
Germany— until pocket battleships
followed tete international fleet into
Tangier and those streets, whereon a
German feared to tread, suddenly be-
came peopled with 'German sailors,
Had such an 'event occurred six
months previously, it would have pre-.
cipitated a European crisis; actually,
it passed with little more than local
comment.
But it was a shock for France. It
may also .prove the .first step in a pol-
evhich, however far it goes, will
seek the restoration of Germain par-
ticipation in the international regime
of Tangier. This stands out as the
easiest line of German diplomatic at-
tack. because the deliberate exclusion
of the Germans represents pre.cise:y
one of those indignities and discrintiu-
ations which I-Ierr Adolf Hitler is de-
termined to wipe off the Treaty of
Versailles. Lf this demand is made
with Italian and possibly, Spanish
support it will he difficult to resist,
and the question of Tangier will be
Spain, or resurgence of German ant- brought once again into the full Aare
',inion, should affect the status quo to of the European limelight.
their disadtanta . Why, then. if the Ever since the German renaissanee
establishment o' the !Germans in .raised covetous -eyes in search of co'-
onies, France has been nervous lest
its glance should fall on Morocco.
,For, to France, the Morocco protect-
orate means more than the possession
of a vast colonial empire and reserv-
oir of potential soldiers; it represent;
100 years of patient penetration, arm-
ed intervention and diplomatic in-
trigue. The process commenced in
14030, when she picked a quarrel with
.Abd el hrim and occupied L\lgeria; it
moved forward, with the usual pro-
fessions of reluctance, when she de-
cided to punish a defiant ruler and'
absorbed Tunis; it reached its closing
chapter in 196'_4, when the .bought off
British and Spanish claims and secur-
ed the French protectorate of Moroc-
c,. It is a saga of steady penetration
fi'.,nt the Mediterranean to the Atlan-
tic, which has .given :France posses-
sion of nearly one quarter of the Af-
rican continent. The pt'ogriese was not
easy. It called for the use of all the
lodges and subterfuges invented by
the white nations in their quest for
colonial expansion, and at various
points 'brought France into 'bitter
conflict with other powers, kale,
with designs on Tunis, had to 'be .com-
pensated by concessions in Tripoli
(111900) and IAlbyssinia (919316).
Britain was a more formidable
competitor, for her ciai4ns tb Morocco.
itself ranked pari passel, and were not
finally disposed of 'until the signature
of the Anglo -'French accord en 19011,
which gave France a free hand in Mo-
rocco in return for a dike Concession"
to England in Egypt. A Franco -Span-
ish convention of the same year corn
pettsated Spanish claim's with the
much-discussed S•pttnish zone, and to
all appearances cleaned up the situa-
tion. Then. just as !France thought
that the long struggle was over, Ger-
malty stepped in. 1-le''Claims were
;tender, hitt she desired For herself -a
'.-lace in elle North"AFrican sun and
leclined to be 'bound by the aecords
i (Continued on Page Three)
nm•tlt 3dorove,,, or the Spanish zone,
would iuevitahly be opposed by Eng-
land, do the French exhibit such ex-
treme concern: The reason is that
they art• none mu certain of the posi-
tion in their own protectorate. and
'ear the aftermath- of the insurgent
reliance noon Moorish troops, '''Itis'
Hispano-\to.irislt ,:nnsortinnt is one
4110 Most interesting' and curious
....autres of the situatitm which has
'to!rrd front the civil war, \\'heti
cement! Franc, raised the standard
of revolt in !','icon (the capital of
;p;utish Idoroe;','1, its was supported
by the splendid Spanish Foreign Leg-
it - unlike it. French cntniterpart, it
of in i.,allc ;nun„tnetl of Spam i
dards — ate!. strange to tell. the
\I"or:--diose very Mons who, but a
few year, at;u, fought the Spaniards
to a standstill and only capitulated to
a combined Franco -Spanish on-
slaught.
\\'hen, by the Treaty of Versailles,
d ranee forced Germany to renounce
all rights and privileges in Morocco,
and incidentally, cleared her out of
3trternational Tangier, she doubtless
imagined she has disposed of the Ger-
man menace to her North African
colonies for ever. ,French Morocco
was, indeed, a olosed book to the
'Germans. In the French zone *roper
her consulates were seized, Iter post
offices closed, her trade extinguished
her nationals only allowed to land by
the express permission of the ihren,ch
'authorities—lter participation in what
it lie once claimed as an international
question teas reduced to a memory.
And without very adequate reason,
these restrictions were extended to
the zone of Tangier, where .the ad-
ministration is international and con-
trolled by a committee of powers,
cine of whom were never at war
ith ,Germany, The French argue
that Tangier is att integral part ..i
the S4id'tan's domains and therefore
stcb!ject to the 'Su'ltan's (i.e., French)