Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week relaxed the airtight censorship on political news which had prevailed in North Africa since the Allied landings last November. The smell of intrigue was worse than even the profoundest pessimists had imagined. Wrote unemotional Drew Middleton, correspondent of the even more unemotional New York Times, just back in Algiers from a trip to the Morocco bailiwick of General Auguste Nogues:
"Profiteering, political apathy . . . distrust of the Americans and lack of faith in an ultimate United Nations victory are rife in French Morocco,...
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