RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SPANISH AND THE NATIONALISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009600290002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT No.,
25X1) . it is dit'ficult to predi the lengths to which Spain is
prepared to go in order to win Arab gcao U in the ,Mddl a Vast, but that
s,t :hi .10lieve,i that for a variety of reason Spain intends to rake spine
~zaxsecosssicans to Nationalist domsuds in Morocco there have already been minor
andTwatiara of this. intention"
2,x The High Commissioner has announced ghat be 20 the end of October it is hoped
to place in effect the dahir drawn up by Go eral Varela four pars ago,
whereby a .Moroccan Seca rotary- General rr -uld appointed to each bMinistry;
these mmvn are to be nominated by the Spezia de in consultation .with the
Kha.lifa. Similarly, there are plans to roa6oitate the Xhalifian Council a
ihi.oh it to consist of tan membersb headed, by the Khalifags older brother?
i REPORT
^:';s t~ :t e:1e.t iorr.e bet ireen. the Span s
'Nationalists
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l.n the :ert region of the Pit most of ?the''Ciaids (one of whorag. the Caid of
Rani Tuziu was a clone personal friend of the late High Commissioner) have
'aoee:n suaperxded as a result of numerous complaints from the tribesmen,
''h?? "toroltesexia believe that the various i.:zd i'ioations of a more liberal policy
kr-s . from a Spanish desire to shine by acarntja.r?isrrxe with the Fr enoho When
',;he Moroccan question is raised in. tho Gone!ral Asserabl,;e'ra the Spanish will
oa in a poa it ian to point out that. they sre already engaged in reforms more
ad-;anced than any hitherto conceived in Fr onch Morocco,, Abdeljalek Torres
states that he puts to faith in those sire of a softening of heart, and
re rardr them as pure e-mindow dr ossing01
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Cor nc nt*U According to some report? Torres himself has had oon rt ata? Orin
th wham p" a sui.sh au.thoritiev. Nevertheless,, in the absence in Cairo of his
fellow Trat'onal.ist headers,. Allal el-Fsosi and Hassan el.-.Ouazz if, it is
probable that he will come to any t' ,reement with the Spaniardso
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