We're on the Spot In Morocco.

This article focuses on the relation between the U.S. and Morocco. Tunisia and Morocco, recently have emerged from France's tutelage and now are independent nations, war-torn Algeria, in the middle, remains for the time being French. The bitter fight for independence has left a heavy mortgage on North Africa. The U.S. maintain a string of air bases in Morocco that make this recently freed country, willy-nilly, a pawn in the cold war. Laid out eight years ago at a cost of some $500,000,000, these bases have of late become the subject of a controversy whose outcome may affect the U.S. dealings with the entire Arab world. Of the five major installations the U.S. operate, one is a naval air base on the coast, another is an inactive air base; the three others are operative bases whose lodgers are the long-range bombers of the U.S. Strategic Air Command.