MOROCCO: Man of Balances

Monday, Apr. 22, 1957

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If France could somehow make its peace with Algeria, as some day it must, France might be grateful to have a man so dedicated to Western cooperation as the Sultan of Morocco at the head of the Arabs in North Africa. So might the U.S. Says one U.S. diplomat: "Peoples all over Africa are looking at Morocco to see whether a country can achieve independence in stability and progress. We are certainly not going to let the Sultan down." Says Mohammed V: "During the last war we were the beachhead for liberation. Now we want to be the beachhead for peace, for freedom and for friendship."

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