French North Africa

That July, Roosevelt agreed to an Allied landing in French North Africa, a controversial and hotly contested change in policy.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

That July, Roosevelt agreed to an Allied landing in French North Africa, a controversial and hotly contested change in policy.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

During the planning stage, while Ike remained in London, the volumes of correspondence that went back and forth between Whitehall and the War Department, particularly with regard to the landing sites in French North Africa, treated Ike very much as only one officer expressing his own views rather than as the commander of the expedition.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

As Robert Murphy, Roosevelt’s envoy in French North Africa, explained: Influenced by Hopkins, Roosevelt gave Monnet letters of credit that raised him almost to the status of a personal envoy of the United States to North Africa.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

As Robert Murphy, Roosevelt’s envoy in French North Africa, explained: Influenced by Hopkins, Roosevelt gave Monnet letters of credit that raised him almost to the status of a personal envoy of the United States to North Africa.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

The second was the Allied landings in French North Africa in November 1942, precipitating the German takeover of Vichy after which Pétain’s regime truly became a puppet of the Nazis.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

The second was the Allied landings in French North Africa in November 1942, precipitating the German takeover of Vichy after which Pétain’s regime truly became a puppet of the Nazis.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

As Robert Murphy, Roosevelt’s envoy in French North Africa, explained: Influenced by Hopkins, Roosevelt gave Monnet letters of credit that raised him almost to the status of a personal envoy of the United States to North Africa.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

The second was the Allied landings in French North Africa in November 1942, precipitating the German takeover of Vichy after which Pétain’s regime truly became a puppet of the Nazis.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

As voluminously, extensively, repeatedly although not always by the "lamestream" corporate media documented in the 2006 campaign - and not just by Democrats either - the word is an extremely common racial slur in French North Africa, from where Allen's mother's side of the family hails.

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