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in the goods that the Arabs had, what they would give for a shirt. A shirt was the most important thing they could get. They had almost no clothes. Their clothes were patched and cut off and all kinds of things, you know, to make them hold out.

These were all very important. Of course he also conceived this idea while he was there - he had a very great imagination about places - that the whole area there, Casablance and Marakech, on the edge of the Berber country, would make the most beautiful winter resort, and that it should be so developed. The sun was beautiful. The climate was mild, and the sun never failed. You could grow anything there with a little irrigation. It was more beautiful, I remember his saying in Cabinet meeting, it was more beautiful than any winter resort in Florida. Of course this was anathema to some of the members present, but he said it jokingly to them.

“That's what we ought to do after the war. That's what they ought to make it after the war. We should lend the French money, pour it in there, make it a fine winter resort. Winston likes it. He'll go there and take pictures, and then other people will go. It's a great place.”

He had been touched with it, that way. Also on that occasion they stopped at Cairo. Now, did they stop on the way up or the way back? Anyhow, they met Chiang and





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