Morocco

Country

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 36 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara. It is part of the Maghreb region, in addition to Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, and Libya, with which it shares cultural, historical ...

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Monday 29th January 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Snowfall hampering air ops. Cabinet argues export deal with Italy extensively. Note of regret to Japan over ship seizure
person Anthony Eden
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Kingsley Wood
person Woodrow Wilson
place Greece
place Finland
place Hong Kong
place Morocco
organisation New Zealand Treasury
 

Saturday 25th May 1940

Meeting minutes

extract PM: Night bombing of Middlesbrough “welcome stimulus” to domestic air raid precautions. Urges penalties for unprepared
extract German aircraft confused with returning UK bombers overnight. Attacks on Yorkshire, E Anglia. Damage and casualties minor
extract Churchill: “Imperative we should hold on to Calais”. “Heartening message” to be sent to British forces there
extract Calais force held at Cassel, Belgians facing Courtrai attack, French only holding part of Amiens and outskirts of Peronne
extract General Ironside: Gort's communications almost severed. Unclear if he is advancing to ports, Amiens or “fighting it out”
person Anthony Eden
person Alexander Cadogan
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person John Anderson (Australian politician)
person Winston Churchill
person Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
person Alan Keyes
place Great Britain
place Morocco
place Portsmouth
 

Meeting minutes

extract UK Ambassador Rome says Italy's entry into the war “now a certainty” and the delay can “no longer be reckoned in months”
extract Cabinet informed French and Norwegian troops have occupied Narvik Decision on UK to evacuate postponed http://ow.ly/1Rvsg
extract RAF switching from continuous patrols over Dunkirk to “occasional patrols of much greater strength”
extract HMS Wakeful and HMS Grafton sunk while evacuating troops. Over 630 casualties
extract PM: Latest information from Admiralty that 40,000 BEF troops now returned to UK. 2000 men being evacuated every hour
person Anthony Eden
person Alexander Cadogan
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Herbert Morrison
person John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
person Franklin D. Roosevelt
person Kingsley Wood
place Great Britain
place Halifax Peninsula
place Morocco
place Rome
 

Saturday 15th June 1940

Plans to meet a certain eventuality: French Colonial Empire and Mandated Territories.

extract Chiefs of Staff circulate suggested strategies to encourage French overseas territories to continue assistance to Britain
person Chiang Kai-shek
place Freetown
place Aruba
place New Caledonia
place Somaliland
place Madagascar
place Iraq
place Caribbean
place Singapore
place Turkey
place Europe
place Gibraltar
place Dakar
place Beirut
place Morocco
place Syria
place Africa
place Newfoundland, Kentucky
place Burma
organisation Minister of Economic Warfare
organisation United States Congress
 

Meeting minutes

extract Report former French Cabinet now in Rabat. Information Minister to fly to Morocco to convince group to form government
person Charles de Gaulle
person John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
place Algeria
place Morocco
place Syria
place Africa
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
organisation Home Office
organisation New Zealand Treasury
 

Visit to French Morocco.

extract Information Minister reports failure in North Africa mission. French "determined we should see nobody of importance"
person Duff Cooper
person John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
place Gibraltar
place London, Ontario
place Morocco
organisation French Air Force
 

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet approves broadcast tonight recognising General de Gaulle as "Leader of all free Frenchmen"
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Charles de Gaulle
person Walter Hines Page
person James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
place Morocco
place Northern Ireland
 

Situation in Algeria and French Morocco.

extract Chiefs of Staff to examine proposal from Information Minister Duff Cooper for an invasion of French Morocco
person Duff Cooper
person John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
place Gibraltar
place Algeria
place Morocco
place Africa
 

Meeting minutes

extract Royal Navy to transport an estimated 20,000 men back to France from tonight
extract PM: Desirable to remove from UK as soon as possible all French troops not volunteering "to remain and carry on the fight"
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person Walter Hines Page
person John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
person Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
place South Africa
place New York, Lincolnshire
place Somaliland
place Egypt
place Iceland
place Malta
place Algeria
place Morocco
place Africa
organisation Hopatcong High School
organisation Royal Navy
organisation Royal Marines
 

Tuesday 9th July 1940

Meeting minutes

extract French Charge d'Affaires lodges formal protest against “irregular and unnecessary” segregation of French missions to UK
extract Cabinet approves Home Security plan to modify UK air raid warning system to carry on factory production during air attack
extract Air Secretary: Germans may be using captured Hurricanes from Belgium and France in air attacks on UK
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
place Halifax Peninsula
place Gibraltar
place Morocco
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
organisation Home Office
organisation RAF Fighter Command
 

Meeting minutes

extract Foreign Office inform Cabinet Roumania has left League of Nations. Sign of "complete subservience of Roumania to Germany"
extract Chamberlain rules out guarantee by UK to restore "the independence and territorial integrity of France" and French Empire
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
person Charles de Gaulle
person Kingsley Wood
person Clement Attlee
person Robert Craigie (diplomat)
person Neville Chamberlain
place Portugal
place Madrid
place Europe
place Algeria
place Morocco
place Burma
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
place West Germany
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

Meeting minutes

extract Clement Attlee proposes "Youth Force" for young men below the age for military service. Cabinet orders detailed scheme
extract Halifax: UK may be "held up to the execration of the World" for operating a blockade preventing food imports to Europe
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
person Clement Attlee
place Halifax Peninsula
place Europe
place South America
place Morocco
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
 

Meeting minutes

extract Commons to debate Hitler's Reichstag speech tomorrow. Press told speech requires no "official reply from this country"
extract Cabinet agrees uninterned aliens in the UK will be liable to military service on the same conditions as British subjects
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person Samuel Hoare
person Adolf Hitler
person Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
person Farouk of Egypt
place Egypt
place Morocco
place Africa
organisation British Army
 

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet discusses UK response to a future Japanese invasion of Dutch East Indies. Chiefs of Staff cannot agree a policy
extract General de Gaulle to be consulted before Cabinet responds to French complaints over leaflet drops, detention of officials
extract Halifax reports arrest of 9 British citizens in Tokyo. Rumour USSR will shortly extend its control of Polish government
extract Admiralty to examine apparent delay in getting anti-aircraft defences into action when enemy aircraft appear
extract Air Chief: Enemy losses so far today 8 for certain, 8 probable, 6 possible. One UK pilot killed, several machines damaged
person Alexander Cadogan
person Andrew Greenwood
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Charles de Gaulle
person Stafford Cripps
person Robert Craigie (diplomat)
place Tokyo
place Morocco
organisation Home Office
organisation New Zealand Treasury
organisation House of Commons of Canada
organisation United States Army
organisation Bank of England
 

Monday 5th August 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet approves Operation Scipio. De Gaulle to mobilise a force for N. Africa shortly. Force to set sail by August 23rd
extract 15m incendiaries for aborted Operation Razzle on German crops remain unused. RAF to drop on German heathland near bases
person Charles de Gaulle
place Egypt
place Nigeria
place Algeria
place Morocco
place Africa
organisation Hopatcong High School
 

Wednesday 11th September 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Air Secretary to consider reprisals against one of 20 named German towns if indiscriminate attacks on London continue
extract Air Chief: Overnight raids on Germany "on the whole successful". Potsdam Station (Berlin) attacked, 6 direct hits claimed
person Anthony Eden
person Alexander Cadogan
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person Maxime Weygand
person Clement Attlee
place Halifax Peninsula
place Sudan
place Berlin
place Kenya
place Morocco
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
 

Situation in Spain.

extract UK Embassy Madrid: Germany now "rather desperate about Spain". Spanish obstinate,"our wonderful fight is impressing them"
person Charles de Gaulle
person Francisco Franco
person Winston Churchill
place Portugal
place Gibraltar
place Morocco
organisation Air Force F.C.
 

Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco.

extract Halifax warns of likely German "diversion" against Egypt or Iberian Peninsula. "Great pressure will be placed on Spain"
person Charles de Gaulle
person Francisco Franco
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Portugal
place Egypt
place Halifax Peninsula
place Madrid
place Turkey
place Paris
place Europe
place Gibraltar
place Berlin
place Morocco
place Syria
place Africa
place Madrid, New York
organisation German Army
organisation Minister of Economic Warfare
 

Tuesday 1st October 1940

Meeting minutes

extract PM: Agree principle of talks but not "a golden opportunity". Should protect de Gaulle, "assist in any movement" he starts
extract Halifax proposes Vichy talks to secure "healthily anti-German" France. "Not vital" whether Colonies to Vichy or de Gaulle
person Charles de Gaulle
person Samuel Hoare
place Great Britain
place Madrid
place Cairo
place Libreville
place Gibraltar
place Morocco
place Africa
organisation United States Navy
 

Meeting minutes

extract Halifax to examine ways UK can inconvenience Japan "without ceasing to act politely". Trade interference already begun
extract PM: Reports of "indescribable conditions" in public shelter in Stepney. "Drastic action" called for to make building safe
extract Home Secretary: Outside London "most serious attacks" on Manchester. "Lucky hits" on railways. Details not yet available
extract Air Chief: 250 enemy aircraft attacked overnight. London main objective also Midlands, S.Wales. Oil plant at Purfleet hit
person Anthony Eden
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person Charles de Gaulle
person Samuel Hoare
person Clement Attlee
place South Africa
place Somaliland
place Gibraltar
place Berlin
place Morocco
organisation Home Office
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
 

Meeting minutes

extract PM Churchill: "Intolerable that any newspaper should indulge in criticism and abuse...in a time of great national peril"
extract PM complains of "dangerous and sinister" Press criticism. Accuses HG Wells and Editors of advocating a "surrender peace"
extract PM argues with Halifax over "appeasement of Vichy". UK should "retaliate by bombarding Casablanca" if Gibraltar attacked
extract Halifax: Reports Herr Ribbentrop's Rome visit had "object of keeping Italy in the war". Our bombing having "great effect"
extract USA has inquired about use of Singapore "in the event of trouble in the Far East". PM: Japan has made "great" mistake
person Anthony Eden
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person Samuel Hoare
person Kingsley Wood
person Joachim von Ribbentrop
place Cranborne
place Halifax Peninsula
place Madrid
place Tangier
place Singapore
place Gibraltar
place Morocco
place Rome
place Libya
organisation Daily Mirror
 

Relations with Vichy.

extract Vichy government assures UK it will "never be an aggressor". Halifax: "Glad to extract what we can from that"
place Morocco
place Africa
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

Friday 15th November 1940

Breach in the blockade of Metropolitan France and French Colonies.

extract Foreign Office officials complain UK allowing French blockade running and so "blunting the spearhead of our own attack"
place Europe
place Morocco
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

Thursday 12th December 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Morrison: Many fires reported in Birmingham but all under control. 12 factories, 8 schools, 5 churches, 2 cinemas damaged
extract PM Churchill to consult with President Roosevelt before ordering economic action against Ireland
extract Chiefs of Staff: RAF have inflicted severe losses on Italian Tank Group and a Blackshirt Division withdrawing to Sollum
extract Chiefs of Staff: Sidi Barrani captured by British forces. 4th Armoured Brigade making for Sollum, now west of Buq Buq
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Herbert Morrison
person John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
person Andrew Duncan
place Greece
place Egypt
place North America
place Valona, California
place Morocco
place Madrid, New York
place Libya
organisation Home Office
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation House of Lords
 

Contacts with the Vichy Government.

extract Halifax: To go beyond this may be difficult for Vichy. They must be careful "to avoid rousing German suspicions"
extract Halifax: We have received written assurances from Vichy that France will retain her fleet and Empire and not attack UK
person Charles de Gaulle
person Samuel Hoare
person Maxime Weygand
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Greece
place Egypt
place Tangier
place Libreville
place Gibraltar
place London, Ontario
place Morocco
place Africa
place Madrid, New York
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
organisation Royal Navy
 

Wednesday 29th January 1941

Meeting minutes

extract Eden: Vichy's new economic proposals have "little relation to reality". UK will refuse to "make large concessions"
extract PM: Position "an anxious one and must be carefully watched". Defence Committee reviewing Eastern Mediterranean area
extract Cabinet discuss Balkans. Death of General Metaxas "a serious loss". Clear some German infiltration of Bulgaria occurring
person Anthony Eden
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Samuel Hoare
person Kingsley Wood
person Clement Attlee
place Cranborne
place Ethiopia
place Morocco
place Africa
place Bulgaria
 

Monday 3rd February 1941

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet approves construction of Burma-China railway if border agreed. Secretary of State to inform Burmese government
extract Eden: Resignation of Iraq government "not to be regretted". New one "not very satisfactory but might be only a stop-gap"
extract General Wavell reports enemy making "determined stand in difficult country" in Eritrea. Rapid progress "unlikely"
extract General Heywood: Greek First Corps "in good heart". Few casualties suffered from the enemy, but many from frost bite
extract Admiralty: Swordfish bombers attacked dam in Sardinia. Met heavy anti-aircraft fire, claimed 3 hits on dam with torpedoes
extract Air Chief: Enemy aircraft have dropped bombs and mines in the Suez Canal. A number of the mines have now been detonated
person Anthony Eden
person Alexander Cadogan
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
person Kingsley Wood
person Ernest Brown
person Clement Attlee
person John Dill
place Greece
place Cranborne
place Iraq
place Eritrea
place Washington
place Morocco
place Africa
place Burma
organisation Home Office
 

Action to be taken against Enemy Submarines taking refuge in Spanish Territorial Waters.

extract Admiralty requests permission to chase enemy submarines into Spanish territorial waters. "Not proposed" to inform Spain
place Gibraltar
place Morocco
 

Monday 3rd March 1941

Food Supplies for Unoccupied France. Telegram to Lord Halifax (Washington).

extract Foreign Office to Halifax: "We must rely on you to reason patiently with US against giving any food to unoccupied France"
place Europe
place Washington
place Morocco
 

Policy towards Vichy Shipping.

extract Shipping Minister demands Vichy reciprocate food aid shipments by returning two UK vessels "with cargo that we require"
place New York, Lincolnshire
place Gibraltar
place Morocco
 

Thursday 1st May 1941

Weekly Resume (No. 87) of the Naval, Military and Air Situation from 12 noon April 24th to 12 noon May 1st, 1941.

extract Chiefs of Staff: Iraqi Army concentrated in and around Baghdad. Evidence Raschid Ali may offer resistance to our troops
extract Chiefs of Staff: Every indication Germans see Libya as "theatre of war to which their maximum efforts should be devoted"
extract Chiefs of Staff: "No reliable indications of imminent hostilities" between Germany and USSR, relations somewhat strained
place Aruba
place Greece
place Baghdad
place Iceland
place Liverpool
place Malta
place Europe
place Tobruk
place Tunisia
place Alexandria
place Morocco
place Syria
place Africa
place Libya
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation Advanced Micro Devices
 

Weekly Resume (No. 88) of the Naval, Military and Air Situation from 12 noon May 1st, to 12 noon May 8th, 1941.

extract Chiefs of Staff: General Fraser unable to occupy Basra. Population "hostile and imbued with anti-British propaganda"
person Richard Kiel
place Athens
place Wellington, Nevada
place Greece
place Iceland
place Eyre Peninsula
place Turkey
place Basra
place Sicily
place Europe
place Morocco
place Bristol
place Libya
organisation RAF Coastal Command