NORTH AFRICA: Echoes

World Jewry has long worried about what might happen to the 700,000 Jews who live in Arab lands in North Africa and the Middle East, when open warfare broke out in Palestine. Last week a grisly reminder of the danger came out of French Morocco. There, for the first time since the proclamation of Israel,* Arabs massacred Jews outside of Palestine.

Angry Wind. At the little frontier town of Oudjda, on the edge of the eastern Moroccan desert, anti-Jewish rumors had been sweeping through the bazaars as angrily as wind-whipped sand from the desert. Young Jews, whispered the Moslems, were...

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