A MEETING IN CASABLANCA

Mohammed V, Franklin Roosevelt, and Morocco in the Second World War

von Abdeslem El Idrissi

114 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In January 1943, at the height of the Second World War, Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled secretly to Morocco for the Casablanca Conference, where he and Winston Churchill planned the next stages of the Allied war. Yet one of the most enduring moments of Roosevelt's visit occurred outside the formal strategic discussions: his meeting with Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco.A Meeting in Casablanca: Mohammed V, Franklin Roosevelt, and Morocco in the Second World War reconstructs the political and military world that brought these two leaders together. Beginning with Morocco under the French Protectorate and the collapse of France in 1940, the book follows the growing American interest in North Africa, the dramatic landings of Operation Torch in November 1942, the battle for Casablanca, and the complicated political settlement that followed.At the center of the narrative is the celebrated dinner between Roosevelt and Mohammed V at Anfa in January 1943. Did Roosevelt promise American support for Moroccan independence? What can the surviving documents actually tell us about their conversation? And why did the meeting acquire such importance in Moroccan historical memory?Drawing on diplomatic records, wartime documents, contemporary reports, and later recollections, Abdeslem El Idrissi carefully distinguishes documented evidence from subsequent legend. Rather than reducing Moroccan independence to a promise made by an American president, the book places the encounter within the longer development of Moroccan nationalism, the growing political role of Mohammed V, the 1944 Manifesto of Independence, the Sultan's 1947 Tangier speech, his deposition and exile in 1953, his triumphant return in 1955, and the restoration of Moroccan sovereignty in 1956.A Meeting in Casablanca is a history of war, diplomacy, sovereignty, and memory-and of a moment when an old colonial order still survived, but its permanence could no longer be taken for granted.

• Reihe: A MEETING IN CASABLANCA
• ISBN: 9798173820754
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published