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CONCERT.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
4 pm. tomorrow.
DANCE.
All States Club, Washington Ho-
tel, $50 o'clock tonight.
LECTURE.
"Renegotiation of Contracts as
Related to the Tax Program" by
Maj. w. w. Watts, National Univer-
sity, $50 o'clock tonight.
RECREATION.
Walsh Club for War Workers, 4
to II O'Clock tonight. Dance class
$50 o'clock
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco The.
ater, tonight: Fort Washington
dance band, Danish Legation pro.
gram and Fourth Army Service
Forces dance band.
Entertainment tickets, THE Hut,
E at Pennsylvania avenue NV,
to $3.50 o'clock tonight.
Pepsi-Cola Center, $50 am. today
to 1890 am. tomorrow. First three
floors open to servicewomen.
Masonic Center. to II O'Clock
tonight. Dance, $50 o'clock.
Officers.
Officers' Club of the United Ma.
tions. Burlington Hotel 10 am. te
1890 o'clock tonight. Introductory
cards to entertainment
Dance. officers Club of Wash.
ington, 8:30 O'Clock tonight.
Servicemen.
Games, Northeast USO, Sixth
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the center for use In religious serv.

the center for use In religious serv-
ices, 1t has been announced.
Abraham Beyda will present one
Of the Torahs in honor OF his late
father, and Rabbi Solomon Metz OF
Washington will dedicate the Sec
ond Torah. Rabbi Samuel H. Berko-
witZ, spiritual leader Of the center
also will take part in the ceremony
The Torah, or scroll Of law, is
handwritten on sheets of parch-
ment, and is read at all festival and
Sabbath services observed by men,
bers OF the Jewish faith.
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Two Toruhs Presented
ArIinqton Center

The Arlington Jewish Community
Center, $3.50 Wilson boulevard, at
$3.50 pm. Sunday will receive two
Torahs which have been presented
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war workers welcome.
For details call USO information,
National 1881.
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'Biking party. YWCA (USO) 8
o'clock tonight.
TAP dance class, Hearthstone
War Workers Club, o'clock to-
night.
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Red stamps are not rationed II
they are War savings stamps. Help
yourself and your country.
Evening star., 1943-02-07
Cinderella City of Africa Has Had Riches Career

For 1000 years an independent king
dom and for long the ruler OF much Of
the Western Mediterranean shores,
Morocco was still resisting European
control in the last quarter OF the 10th
century. But when his fathers death
made Abdul-Aziz the new Sultan in 1894,
he was only l3 years old and, moreover,
was practically bankrupt. His fathers
Negro vizier guided the bewildered young
ruler through the mazes Of diplomacy
for six years; then he too died.
The Sultan was the son Of a Russian
woman sold by slave traders into the
Sultans harem, and by training he was
sympathetic with Europeans. In 1906
he granted Europeans the right to trade
freely in Morocco. with special conces-
sions to France, since that nation had
lent enough money to the Sultan to have
q controlling interest In the Morocco
State Bank. The country rocked and
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you where Club Pasha lives or has his
headquarters.
I made my first approach, however,
through H. NJ. Foot, acting British resi-
dent, who recently had been appointed
as assistant to the military administrator
for Cirenaica, but had not yet left for
Libya
1t was through Foot that I was invited
to dinner party at the high, hilltop
house where Glubb Pasha lives with his
charming wife, young Englishwoman,
the former Rosemary Forbes, who has
borne him one son, Godfrey, aged 3.
Cleaning on the walls of the dining
room were ceremonial swords in their
engraved scabbards of silver and gold
gifts from Bedou chieftains who had
come under the easy spell of Club
Pasha On the terrace outside, a military
band from the Arab Legion played a
dinner concert Of English and American
airs interspersed with Highland tunes on
their bagpipes.
I had been told that an easy way of
locating his headquarters was to find the
largest congregation of Arabs in Amman.
That would be on the steps and along
the roadway Just outside Ell Farik's
Offices I found it so. Fully 100 men In
their flowing robes with Wicked-looking
knives pinned over their stomachs were
lOafng about waiting to see the father
Of the little chin.
Some squatted on their launches, for
they would be there for patient hours.
Others leaned against the stone wall,
killing time with cigarettes and small
talk. What brought them there with
such morning regularity?
The answer lay in Glubb Pasha's
standing as a sort of final court OF ap-
peah for every unsettled kQuabbls Of the
Evening star., 1943-02-07
BY Clyde A. FarnsWorth,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

Associated Press Star Writer.
AMMAN, Transiordan A bursting
shell on the western front of the first
John Baggot Glubb, but also helped mold
a career for him as a ranking leader in
the Arab world, affectionately known to
Bedouin chieftain or peasant villager as
Abu Hunaik-father of the little chin.
The reputation and personal power
which Abu Hunaik has built up in %
years in this part of the world have been
for Britain and her Allies a tremendous
prop against the political stress and
strain of the Second World War
Club. now As, came out Of the First
World War with lieutenancy, the first
OF his military decorations and an
appetite for life more adventurous than
the dull, postwar existence in England.
Today, in terms more formal than Abu
Hunaik, Glubb is Glubb Pasha, or simply
The Pasha in these parts. by decree of
the Emir of Translordan, as we'll as being
ell farik, or general, commanding the
Arab Legion, one of the strangest armies
in the world. The Legion Is product of
Gluhb's modern improvisation on age
old 'motifs of Arab desert fighting.
Glubb's Headquarters.
One cannot be long in Amman before
encountering the presence OF Club
Pasha. Any child playing in the ruins
~ the o1d Traero-Poman anophit he ater
across the road from the hotel can tell
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BY DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor,
President, National Geographic Society.

Odorous. crowded souks and camels
plodding through narrow streets-fea-
lures Of the popular notion of Arab
cities such ss Fee and Marrakech in
North Africa-definitely do not belong
tn the picture Of Morocco's Casablanca,
where President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill gathered their war
staf1s for that unconditional surrender"
conference.
This Is the largest city Of French
North Africa, recently having sur
passed the Mediterranean port of Al
giers after several years Of neck-and-
neck expansion.
Census-takers gave Casablanca 2570oO
people In 1886. Since then visitors in
search OF a hotel reservation have
erumbled that the population must have
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Press Wirephoto.

-Associated Press Wirephoto.
all the buildings not yet looted and
burned by insurgent Moroccans. Above
the ruins has risen the new city, white
and shining. with few old structures ex-
cept the disputed Tomb Of Sidi Belly
out, now a next-door neighbor to the
phosphate docks.
The Washingtonian who successfully
navigates the triangles, circles and d.
verging avenues OF the District OF Co.
lumbia feels strangely at home In Casa
blanca. The Prost plan for Casa some
what like the LEnfant plan for the
United States Capital City, has q spider
web center, avenues and boulevards
radiating like wheel spokes, and the
usual grid Of city blocks in between.
Most streets have martial names, ex-
cept Boulevard Emile Zola, Avenue Pas
teur and Boulevard Victor Hugo.
The Place de France
Casa's center is the broad open square
called the Place de France, where q
Moorish-style clock tower Is surrounded
by the very modern French hotels and
ONCE buildings. Though antique in ap-
pearance, the tower with It's tile mosaics
and Moorish arches was built In 1910
by the French.
To reach the water front you drive
several blocks north from the Palace
de France along the Boulevard OF the
Fourth Zouaves. To reach the station
you leave the Place de France and drive
east along the Boulevard de Ia Care
the chief shopping and business street
OF the European section of the city
The station, incidentally In spite Of it,
European efficiency, lifts slender
square minaret into the Moroccan sky.
To reach the native quarter o.
Casablanca you need only find your way
back to the Place de France and fact
northwest. A stone wall some IS or q
feet high, pierced by several gates, in
closes a district of small windowed, fiat.
rooted stucco houses, some of them thre.
and four stories high Mosques ant
bazaars, bare-footed pedestrians, ped
dlers ambling along on small donkey
and brisk natives whizzing to work OF
bicycles set the tempo there Th'
bazaars have their quota of professional
story-tellers, jugglers and snak'
charmers, but for many Moors the oil,
native quarter is already obsolete.
The city plan Of Casablanca has pro
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usually predominant by some comfortable
majority like 10 or 20 to /.
The speed with which Casablanca has
pushed its saucy modern head above
other African cities impressed the French
as so American that they borrowed an
American word to describe it-"le rush"
The tempo undermining has even clipped
the city's name, affectionately abbre-
waited to Casa among the inhabitants.
During the Casa rush. there developed
a real estate boom that would have made
any old-time Floridian feel homesick.
Real Estate Boom
Un-building was almost as prevalent
as building. Casablancans, like New
Workers, had to move hastily out of their
downtown homes just ahead Of the
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sole law-maker Of Morocco. His DEGREES
become the law Of tho land. carried out
by his viziers. The laws Of the Koran
are also enforced. The Berbers supple
ment these Moslem regulations by the
decisions Of the diemaas, local tribal
gatherings somewhat like New England
town meetings.
For further sight seeing in Casablanca
the visitor invariably drives southwark
from the Place dc France along the
Avenue Of Gen. d'Amade (one Of the
veterans Of Frances early campaigns in
Morocco to tho green. wooded Lyautey
Park. named for the city's builder in
chief. The park Is about rs Largo as the
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seethed with resentment against what
seemed to proud Moroccans like selling
out" to Europeans.
At that time Afr1ca's straight Atlantic
coastline showed only two grudging dents
at Casablanca, barely large enough for
raised wall Of beating surf across the
ports entrance, and vessels often car
ried their freight or passengers back
homo rather than risk landing them at
Casablanca in bad weather.
The French undertook to build harbor
Improvement, In spite OF the muttered
imprecations they overheard from high
spirited Moors. A group Of fanatically
religious Moslems protested that the har-
Dor works were too near the shrine of
Sidi Belyout, a domed white tomb shaded
by single ancient palm tree, In which
lay buried a holy man considered by
natives Of the region their patron saint.
The French builders were undeterred. On
July 80, 1907, when the foreign workmen
came too close to the shrine on the sacred
hillside. infuriated Moslems attacked the
foreigners and killed eight OF them.
The Moorish Revolt
Revolt exploded around Casablanca
and enraged Moors poured into the town
for days to drive out the foreigners. The
few Frenchmen took refuge in the con-
sulate, where for a week OF plllage and
plunder they were besieged by thou
sands Finally three French cruisers
and 1000 French soldiers under Gen.
Drude arrived to lift the siege. From
those sultry days of August, 1907, Casa
blanca has been under French protec-
ton
For a time, however, it looked as If
the French might give 1t back to the
Indians" Sultan Abdul-Aziz was re-
placed by his brother, Mulai Hafid, in
1908, and the new ruler began negotiat-
ing for French withdrawal His restive
tribesmen boiled over In revolt mean
while, and he appealed for European
aid. Among those responding to his call
was the German gunboat Panther
which quietly dropped anchor of the
port OF Agad1r.
Having already agreed with Spain and
Great Britain on their respective spheres
of influence, France saw a none-too-
yelled threat In this new claimant TO,
concessions in Morocco. AS result. in
1911, France assumed the right to be the
sole protector of Morocco, except In the
small areas where SPANS influence was
paramount.
Casablanca began to step out in hel
Cinderella role the following year, upor
the arrival of Gen. Qater Marshall Ly'
autey, Frances colony builder. Witt
persistence and Imagination he planned
Morocco's development. Turing the Moor'
into cooperation by such devices as 8
miniature worlds fair exhibit of mod
ern inventions at Casablanca. Tribes
men unwilling to submit to France TO
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wrecking crews and the steam shovels.
They watched many house torn down
to make way for larger building. On
one visit downtown you might say fare
well to your favorite outdoor cafe: on the
next visit you would find the cafes oc-
cupied by four-story bank building or
a 100-foot wide street, already complete
with shade palms.
This Cinderella expansion and beauti-
flying came to Casablanca because the
city was selected by the French for the
role Of Morocco's leading port. When
tried out" for the part less than 40
years ago. Casa was a sixth-rate fishing
town OF 10000 Arabs and Berbers. with
a seventh-rate harbor. But 1t had the
whole Atlantic in its front yard and half
OF French North Africa at it's back
Now it is the finest Atlantic port OF
Africa north Of Dakar.
North Africa's New York
Casablanca in many ways deserves the
title Of North Africas New York. Rail-
roads-some OF them electrified-and
highways reach through French colonies
to the port. there to swap commerce with
the international shipping lines that a
peacetime world hopefully established
Some 10 per cent Of Moroccos imports
and so per cent of the exports ordinarily
cross Casa's quays. Not only the fore
most in Morocco. 1t was-before the war
the seventh busiest port under French
rule dn terms OF ship TONNAGE. Only
four ports In France were busier-Mar-
seille, LIE Havre, Cherbourg and Dunkirk.
(The two other French ports which sur
passed Casablanca were the smaller cities
of Algiers and Oran in Algeria)
Casas 800 acres Of sheltered harbor is
protected by two giant breakwaters, one
Of them mile and half long. Ships
can anchor there which are too large for
all except the two or three biggest ports
OF France. There are nearly miles of
quayS. A separate quay handles phos-
pilates, exported to France for fertilizer
another handles coal exclusively. There
are modern grain elevators, a pipe line
for oil, and a floating dock, in addition
to battery of cranes. On such harbor
improvements alone the French have
gambled $65,o0Oo0O on their confidence
in Casa's commercial future.
This port $500 miles east Of New York
City, is fortunately equipped to serve as
an African anchor for supply litelines
reaching across the Atlantic to United
States forces in North Africa. 1t saves
their supplies the hazard of entering the
Mediterranean, at whose entrance-al-
though Britain stands guard at Gibral-
tar-Spanish Morocco has made no move
to curtail Axis operations The British
base at Gibraltar Is only 220 miles from
Casa.
French Threshold
The harbor Of Casablanca was tn,
threshold over which France advanced II
power in Morocco.
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nother Lawrence of Arabia in Comman

of Western ways, TO take them out Of
their seclusion
But it happens that 1t Is better that
the women should be more educated, in
child care for example. and so that neces-
sity infringes upon tradition. steady
process of gradual change Is the ind1-
Gated answer, however, not sudden
showing aside of the old ways OF life.
Club has found life work which
Is almost a religion for him. When the
first World War was over he applied for
service abroad as an ordinary soldier
and went to Mesopotamia in 1920.
Mesopotamia had been freed from the
Turks in the war and was eventually to
be constituted as an independent state.
Irau. upon her entrance into the League
Of Nations and termination Of the Brit
ish mandate in 1882.
His Military Rank.
Technically Club is op long-term loan
to Transjordan. He holds Lieutenant
colonelcy in the British Army, but wears
on his shoulderstraps the distinctive
insignia Of his rank as FL Far1k-crossed
silver swords and two stars.
The three rows Of ribbons over Club
Pashas heart include the Distinguished
Service Order. Order OF the British
Empire, the Military Gross and several
awards from the World War and for
service In Iraq, Palestine and Trans
jordan.
One of his most important achieve.
ments is not representative nickname
he won years ago when the Arabs, a.
they are likely to do for their friends,
seized upon his predominant facial char.
acteristic resulting from World War
injury and dubbed him Abu Hunaik,
father OF the little chin.
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safety were tempted into doing 1t out
of curiosity
Casablanca itself was to be the prize
exhibit in his modernization show. Just
as Washington. D. c., was conjured out
of the woods by the LEnfant plan,
Lyautey had grandiose blue prints for
a future Casablanca drawn-the Prost
plan. Like Washington. Casa has grown
up and filled out suburban areas which
on the early blueprints appeared fam
tastically remote.
Planned Like Washington
First, Lyautey built Casas artificial
harbor. Grimly he saw three successive
breakwaters washed away by the raging
Atlantic. He built the fourth one on
massive blocks of stone the size of a
house, and it held.
In bombarding the rebellious town in
1907, the French had leveled practically
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been doubled by frantic Europeans try
ing to hide from Hitler.
To outclass the city for size, you would
have to hop to the other side Of the
continent. to Egypt-for Alexandria's
two-thirds Of q million and Cairo's mil
Non and . third.
But until q few years ago. who ever
heard Of Casablanca7
City Had Rapid Growth
When the young United States under
Thomas Jefferson waged war against
the pirate cities Of North Africa's
Barbary coast, 1t was such cities as
Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli that went down
IN history. But Casablanca should have
been one of them.
A quick review Of the Atlantic ports
sags-to-riches career shows that Casa
blanca remained one Of Africa's frozen
sssets for about 1000 years, virtually
unheard Of. though older than Cairo and
Algiers, older even than ancient Alex
andria. The rising price Of blond Chris
tan slaves on the Barbary slave market
brought the port just enough trafic to
make 1t an also-ran among the pirate
Airs of the Barbary coast. But the deep
surge Of Atlantic surf on Africa's shores.
tho shifty politics Of Moslem and Chris
tian trying to out-negotiate each other,
the tomb OF a saint, the dream Of gen.
eral and the dynamite energy OF the
tenacious Berbers-those mysterious fair
"Scots" Of Africa-all these entered an
explosive situation that doomed Casa
blanca in three decades from an insig-
nifcant fishing town to the chief French
metropolis Of Africa.
The fastest-growing Of Africa's urban
mushrooms, most Of the city is brand
new, built under French supervision in
the past 80 years.
Hollywood Type Suburbs
1t has broad boulevards with palm
shaded green parkways between the
trafic lanes-and plenty Of parking
space. 1t has modernistic hotels II
stories high, topped with penthouses
and decorated with tile mosaics in
Moorish geometric designs. 1t has spa
cious Hollywood type suburbs with green
lawns around white and yellow stucco
villas, where the Moorish horseshoe
arch about ties for popularity with the
clean, uncluttered rectangles OF newest
French architecture.
The new Casablanca had less to do
with camel caravans than with Sunday
pleasure driving-while pleasure driving
still existed. Over a broad ocean boule-
ward named for the French Gen. Calmel
Casablanca used to speed south from
the harbor for breezy five miles along
the rocky bluff above the Atlantic. TO
the sandy beach of Ain dab which gave
Africa small slice OF Riviera swimming
and sun bathing.
Az long ago as 1885 third Of the
Casabancans were European-a high
proportion for a country where natives
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Editors note: A remarkable Engllshman.
with Ereat power. serves as the pasha Of
Trausi iordan, the general OF the Arab LEGION
and about him is growing tradition com
parable 10 the Lawrence OF Arabia Of World
War I Here is a striking typewriter profile
of him.
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Wide World yho>A.

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toric Hanno who skirted AfricaS At
lantic shores In his 60-oared galleys a.
far south as what Is now Liberia. Tho
port probably served the Carthagin1Ans
as a post for bartering with desert
tribesmen for ostrich feathers, ivory and
slaves
When the Roman Empire. 10 years
after the death Of Christ, reached al the
way to the Atlantic and annexed this
province OF Mauritania, Casablanca-
then Anfa-was probably 50 little that
It slipped between Roman fingers. For
centuries the port was too insignificant
even to be attacked.
The Barbary pirates, however, recoe.
nized the convenience Of q snug little
unknown harbor as a hideaway They
operated so successfully from Anfa that
the irate Portuguese sent a feet Of so
warships to track them home and de-
stroy their lair, about 1865. So Anfa ex-
pertenced it's first destruction and resur.
rection before Columbus set sail for the
New World.
Origin of Name
In the following century the Portu-
guese tried to stamp out piracy by level
ing the town, driving out its inhabitants
and rebuilding it as fortified Portuguese
base which they called Casa Branca
(White House,. In that era the Span
iards and Portuguese were struggling to
sxpel the Moors from Spain. and Moor
iah revenge probably inspired an attack
on the port Of Casa Branca Tho Portu-
guese abandoned it in 1755. One old his
tortan remarks that an earthquake had
damaged the town beyond repair. At any
rate, Casa Branca no doubt looked As Il
an earthquake had destroyed 1t.
Sultan Sidi Mohammed. ono Of the
700 sons Of Moulay Ismail the Blood
thirsty. was credited by his subjects with
driving the Portuguese off Moroccos At
lantic coast. Patiently he began rebuild
ing the wrecked Casa Branca In 1857,
fitting it out with a handsome mosque,
q medersa for the religious education Of
his people and public baths. On the oc-
casion of this second historic rebuilding
Of the town he rechristened 1t Darrell
Baida, Arabic for white House" At his
death, about the time that Americans on
the opposite side Of the Atlantic were
signing a document known as the Con-
stitution Of the United States the Mo-
roccan port was again thriving little
town, with piracy as side line.
After the United States took decisive
action to end the lawlessness Of the Bar
barry pirates, European merchants opened
trading posts In Dar-el-Batda. Among
them were Spaniards. who translated tho
place name into Casablanca, Spanish for
white House" So Morocco had .
White House In three languages by the
time the presidents palace" In WASH
ington first received that title.
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Aerial U1e1D OF ClSlOLlncG,
and Prime Minister Churchill.
vided new native quarter in the SOUTH
east suburbs. where wide streets, santa
ton, electric lights and all modern con-
veniences are available. This is the
section that is expanding. draining the
younger natives from the old walled
quarter OF the northwest.
Anywhere in Casablanca the visitor
sees the typical Arab in turban and
loose burnoose. But the majority Of the
natives are Berbers, OF the race Of
aboriginal white men known In Africa
since the beginning Of history. They
may be blond and blue-eyed. There are
some who could pass in England for
Scots. Their costume Is long, sleeved
cloak with pointed hood. The women,