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THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
WASHINGTON
file
19 December 1958
Dear Pete:
I am sending over the enclosed
People to People report for your information
and also because of its possible interest
to the President. I know he has a vital
interest in the program itself. This is a
small illustration of how it works.
It is a strange thing, but the
Moroccans seem to like the Navy and our people
think they want us to stay there. All kinds
of informal comments repeat this and come back
here to me. This seems to be contrary to what
is said publicly and what the political position
is. We have even had some conversations lately
about the development of a deep water port at
Lyautey, which seems strange in view of the
published clamor for our departure.
Sincerely, thronas spaces
Dwinto The Eisenhowst LISTERY
Captain E. P. Aurand, USN
Naval Aide to the President
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Enclosure
Naval Installation at Port Lyautey, Morocco.
Morocco is the western window in the Arab world.
What is seen and believed of the Americans there
personifies the United States of America. Language
is no barrier to visible expression of good
will. Here IS what they see:
Abdel Hamid el Alaoui, Pasha of Kenitra
Admiral James L. Holloway, Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Easte
Atlantic and Mediterranean, and
Capt. J. L. Counihan, Commander, U. S. Naval Activities, Port Lyautey, Ke
tra, Morocco.
A good neighbor helps the needy, and
visits the sick; supports local charities;
socializes with his neighbors, and teaches
his neighbors' children to play golf.
American children help, too, os this
American youngster walks away with
top scholastic honors at Kenitra's
Lycee Abdelmalek as Saadi.
A Red Cross Gray Lady, Mrs. David Silvey, fits
a Moroccan student with a sweater, as Ahmed
bel Hadj, director of the Takkadoum school in
Kenitra, shows her a box of Junior Red Cross
school supplies collected by students at the
dependents' school here. Clothing drives such
as this one are a part of the massive community support
given by the base at Port Lyautey/Kenitra.
Chaplain David Casazza (lower left) presents a check for
half a million francs to Kenitra's Pasha (mayor) for the
Entr'aide Nationale, Morocco's National Welfare
Organization. This money was raised by voluntary
contribution at station church services.
Nurse Van Adams (below) visits the understaffed
local hospital to give technical aid.
In the sports field, at right, Moroccan high
school children learn golf from Stanley Grant,
the station pro.
The departure of Shore Patrol Investigator T.Sgt.
Charles Moroukian, USMC, was the occasion for
this buffet dinner (right, center) with his work-
ing contemporaries of the Moroccan Police Depart-
ment.
An American Dependent who is studying at Lycee
Abdelmalek as
Saadi , young
Chris Blair,
does credit to
his age group
as he takes 3
first prizes
and 2 seconds
at the year-end
awards ceremony
held (right) by
the Pasha of
Kenitra , as
Capt. H.K.Bragg
Chief Staff
Officer to the
COMNAVACTS P/L,
looks on.
DEDICATION
This report of our People-to-People program is dedicated to the
Honorable Thomas S. Gates, Secretary of the Navy, whose own
example of dedication to duty, support of the Naval Air Reserve
overseas program, and practical People-to-People work in the
Navy has inspired us to make this program an important effort here.
U. S. Naval Activities
Kenitra, Morocco
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Cummar us MANAL activities
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Our Job--Mak ing Friends for America
The most important job any American overseas has today is
that of making friends for America--to know and be a friend to
the millions of people who have neither our heritage of freedom
nor our economic opportunities.
Probably one of the best and most important end results of the
forward positioning of U. S. Forces in the many lands and areas
throughout the world is not the military action which may or may
not come on our watch, but the influencing of the people of that
area to our side in the basic struggle between freedom and tyranny.
Each of us may be the means by which the uncommitted millions,
who daily struggle for existence and who hope for a better future,
learn about us and aspire to our way of life.
One learns quickly overseas that these people look to us--the
representatives of the great power of the West--to show them by our
Christian example of the good neighbor, by our tolerance and res-
pect for their religion and way of life, by our help and assistance
in broadening their horizons and opportunities, to make real their
perceived image of all Americans.
Similarly, by our selfishness, bad example and intolerance, we
drive from us the very people we were sent to influence to our side.
Here in Morocco--in Africa--in the Moslem world--we have a
rare opportunity to carry out our work of making friends for
America. Probably in no other place can so few influence so many
for so little and with such promising results.
Their attitude toward America and the West could well be in-
fluenced by the personal conduct and the personal example of each
of us here on duty. In no other area is the People-to-People
program so important to our success and tenure in the long pull
ahead.
To be a man among men, to show in oneself the proper example
of zeal, sobriety and discipline, to be sympathetic to the needs
and problems of the host country, to respect their laws and customs
as we expect them to respect ours, to learn their language, to
communicate our interest in their problems, these are the ways of
making friends for America.
No citizen of the Great Republic has any more important job to
do--nor any more important duty here.
J. L. COUNIHAN
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Published as an editorial in the
Port Lyautey Log of Oct. 31, 1958
Yes, the People-to-People program gets a big play at Port
Lyautey Seven thousand Americans reside here--military personnel
and their dependents.
A generation of Moroccans has grown up knowing and liking them,
for the Navy has been here constantly since the Allied landings in
November, 1942.
Ever since Morocco emerged early in 1956 as an independent
sovereign state, there has been the inevitable cry of "Foreigners,
go home" from one end of the political spectrum. The psychological
appeal of such a rallying cry is hard to combat.
And we combat it in the only way we know how.
By showing them what we are, and how we think, work and act.
By showing them the tangible impact of our contribution to the local
economy, and the intangible advantages of what they have learned and
may still learn from us while we remain here.
The future of the African continent may well depend upon us.
Never have our opportunities and our responsibilities been greater.
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Again and again, the Navy has demonstrated that its rescue
facilities are doing the job that would normally be done by the
Moroccan Coast Guard, if such an organization were in existence.
Here, helicopter crewman Frank C. Osborne, AD1, USN, is being
congratulated upon his return from a rescue mission to the Moroccan
trawler "A1 Widad", by Capt. J. L. Counihan, USN, Commander, U.S.
Naval Activities, Port Lyautey, Kenitra, Morocco.
Osborne and the pilot, LCDR Giuseppe Bello, USN took four
crewmen off the ship, which had foundered on the rocks at Point
Oukacha near Casablanca on Jan. 27, 1958, and brought them safely
to shore.
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The "A1 Widad" rescue effort was the fifth such effort within
a month by Port Lyautey based Navy planes and helicopters.
At right, a Navy transport plane circles overhead as Navy
and Air Force helicopters go in to help the snowbound Moroccan
villagers in the Riff mountain town of Djebel des Katma, some
7,500 feet up. Navy planes were the first to spot and circle the
isolated mountaineers on Jan. 2nd.
In another search, seven stranded survivors in the bow section
of the Norwegian oiler "Seirstad" were spotted Jan. 15th by a
Neptune patrol plane of VP-26 as it drifted southeast of Minorca
after breaking off during a bad Mediterranean storm.
The pilot of the plane, LTJG A. N. Kline, found the nearby
Italian cargo ship "Rubicone" by radar, and led it back to the
drifting survivors by flares.
Other assists given were the helicopter rescue of the crew
of the French cargo ship "Pei-Ho", which ran aground, also at
Point Oukacha, and the helicopter evacuation of an American citi-
zen badly injured in an automobile accident at Cordoba, Spain.
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Navy people in Morocco have been quick to respond to local
calls for help. Red Cross volunteer workers are shown at right
before a truckload of clothing collected for victims of a Rabat
fire disaster, which swept through a poor district of the town.
In center, wearing sweater and skirt, is Princess Lalla
Aisha, who heads the Entr'aide Nationale, Morocco's national
welfare organization.
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Another appeal came in from the Moslem Takkadoum School in
Kenitra, which needed supplies for its infirmary.
The Officers Wives Club (OWC) at Port Lyautey volunteered
for this job, and members are shown presenting the medical sup-
plies to Ahmed Bel Hadj, director of the school. OWC members
are (1. to r.) Mrs. Otto H. Schlicht, Mrs. J. L. Counihan and
Mrs. Herbert K. Bragg.
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in procuring some of the medical supplies, since many of the ones
on order were long in disuse in the United States.
But the modern equivalents were found to the satisfaction
of the school.
Nevertheless, this young man appears to be highly skeptical
of the possible after effects of the disinfectant just put on his
newly bandaged cut.
Doubtless he was prepared to be a martyr to science in his
role of "guinea pig".
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Naval Reserve squadrons are an important part of the People-
to People program. Selected by the Chief of Naval Air Reserve
Training for overseas deployment, these citizen-sailors have done
a fine job of representing their communities over here.
These reservists have stirred up much interest on both sides
of the Atlantic, since the U. S. press faithfully reports their
experiences in Morocco, and Moroccan newspapers and radio are
eager for details on the community which their visitors represent.
Radio Morocco, with 27 million listeners within their 140,000
watt range, has broadcast a series of 12 programs catching the
flavor of the home communities of the current visiting squadrons.
A group of Minnesota reservists was startled in connection
with one of these programs by being shanghaied out of a sight-
seeing tour and hustled into a Radio Maroc auditorium, where they
performed a creditable chorus of the "Minnesota Rouser" for one
such program. Their shipmates opined that a completely new inter-
pretation of the song had been found.
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THE SUDGESS OF A PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE PROGRAM DEPENDS UPON
CONTACTS BETWEEN THE PEOPLES. SOMETIMES, IT DEPENDS UPON A
MASSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXPERIENCES OF A RELATIVE FEW,
EXPRESSED THROUGH ADEQUATE PUBLICITY.
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN THE IMPORTANCE
OF THE ANCIENT LAND OF MOROCCO THROUGH THE EYES OF THEIR
NEIGHBORS, THE WEEK-END-WARRIORS OF THE U.S. NAVAL AIR RESERVE
AND NEWS EDIA ACCOMPANYING THE RESERVISTS ON THEIR ANNUAL
CRUISE. THE NAVAL RESERVISTS HAVE FUCUSED THE ATTENTION OF
THE DROCOAN PEOPLE ON THE LITTLE CROSS-SECTION OF AMERICAN
PEOPLE WITCH THEY REPRESENT BY BRINGING GOODWILL MEMENTOS
FROM THEIR COMMUNITY TO THE MOROCOAN EOPLE. THE EXAMPLES OF
PRESS COVERAGE MATTED ON THE PRECEDING PAGES HAVE BEEN RE-
PEATED NINE TIMES THIS YEAR WITH SUBSTANTIAL NEWSPAPER, RADIO,
AND TV COVERAGE IN THE MAIN POPULATION CENTERS OF THE UNITED
STATES, AS INDICATED ON THE MAP 18 THE CENTER OF THIS PAGE.
KING MOMAMMED V RECEIVED AN UNDERSTANDING PRESS COVERAGE OF
HIS RECENT TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE OF THIS FACT.
HIS ITINERARY 18 ALSO SHOWN Oh THE MAP.
THUS THE RESERVE PROGRAM IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE
BASE-WIDE EFFORT EXERTED THROUGH THE AMERICAN AND MOROCCAN
SCHOOLS: THROUGH SPORTS AND YOUTH ACTIVITIES; AND THROUGH
CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS TO CREATE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN THE MOROCOAN AND AMERICAN PEOPLE.
WHAT is SEEN AND BELIEVED OF THE AMERICANS IN KENITRA
PERSONIFIES THE INVITED STATES OF AMERICA. MAINTENANCE OF THE
AMERICAN POSITION IN MOROCCO DEPENDS UPON GOOD COMMUNITY
RELATIONS, AND FLEXIBLE, RESPONSIVE COMMAND RELATIONSHIPS.
Serving as messengers of goodwill, Naval Reservists from Michigan
(top left) arrive in Morocco with a ton of clothing for Moroccan
orphans: from Texas (top center) cowboy boots; from Oakland,
California (left center), 36,000 pencils for school children:
from Willow Grove, Pm. (right center) antibiotics; from
Waukegan, 111., a Johnson outboard motor for Prince Moulay Abdullah
(below map): from Minnesota, hybrid corn seed, presented by Anita
Counthan to Princess Lalla Aicha (lower center). At the lower left
corner, a reservist watches a carpet being made which he will take
back to Minnesota for presentation to Governor Drville Freeman.
The inscription says "Remembrance to the People of Minnesota."
(Lower right) The Future Farmers of America send via the Naval
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Deploying squadrons have found that publicity conscious
hometown industries are delighted to chip in with samples of their
production to be used as bread-and-butter gifts.
Aside from the good initial impact as a friendly diplomatic
gesture of presentation, these gifts serve as semi-permanent
monuments to Moroccan-American friendship.
Here Princess Lalla Aisha, eldest daughter of the King, looks
over an Onan gasoline-driven generator, which is now providing
electrical power for a back country Moroccan hospital.
This generator was part of a group of presents brought over
by VR-813 of Minneapolis, presents which included new antibiotics
for use in fighting trachoma (a prevalent eye disease here) and
notably hybrid corn seed which is particularly well adapted for
growth under local conditions.
Another Minneapolis squadron, VP-812, followed through with
new insecticide sprays and three pedigreed Columbia sheep, as well
as 75 ampoules of frozen semen from three gold-medal American bulls.
Other reserve squadrons also brought along "presents with a
future", and VR-771 and VP-776, both of Los Alamitos, came through
with 36,000 pencils for Morocco's school children and some sample
cases of a new basic food mixture, which can be developed locally
for emergency famine use, as well as a basic staple.
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Morocco's papers give the Navy a good press, as the enclosed
clippings on VP-812 activities testify.
In fact, the press is sometimes too enthusiastic, and the
COMNAVACTS Public Information Officer sometimes has the unique
job for his position of attempting to tone down the overly lyrical
efforts of our admirers in order to keep them from scribbling out
blank checks that the Navy can't cash.
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by the Navy, and has been particularly successful among groups
of nurses and school teachers, who have exchanged visits at their
respective schools and hospitals.
Here a Navy nurse visits a smiling young Moroccan patient
in Kenitra's Canterac Hospital.
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Youngsters and sports made a sure-fire combination in terms of
crowd appeal at the mid-summer Mehdia Lake festival, which the whole
Kenitra area turned out to celebrate.
All Kenitra had a chance here to watch the American game, and
to get an idea of what goes into the making of an American.
If anyone got a good idea of baseball at the game, it probably
wasn't through one of the local papers, which published this highly
stylized version of the game:
"Base-ball is a game which is played between two teams of
nine players each. Naturally there is a ball, and an engine to
play with which is called 'bat'.
"The ground on which the play is going on is square and in
the middle there is a round place called 'diamond' where the "pit-
cher' is staying. He is charged to send the ball to the 'catcher',
this man is placed in the 'home-plate' from where the ball has been
sent and has to return to.
"The other players are outside the ground and are called
Boutfielders'. These men will get in the field when the players
will throw the ball three times outside the lines and will be dis-
qualified.
"The man who sends the ball back to the 'home-plate' is sup-
posed to be the winner. Finally, it is really an unrestrained
run and the base-ball game is a very tiring sport! It is very
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Also of value in promoting mutual understanding are the
competitive individual and team sports, such as this invitational
swimming meet, shown at the beginning of the 50-meter backstroke
finals.
The Air Station basketball team has also become well known
in town, since it began signing up local athletic clubs as a
regular part of its schedule.
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"ocrText": "Reople So greaple\nTHE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY\nWASHINGTON\nfile\n19 December 1958\nDear Pete:\nI am sending over the enclosed\nPeople to People report for your information\nand also because of its possible interest\nto the President. I know he has a vital\ninterest in the program itself. This is a\nsmall illustration of how it works.\nIt is a strange thing, but the\nMoroccans seem to like the Navy and our people\nthink they want us to stay there. All kinds\nof informal comments repeat this and come back\nhere to me. This seems to be contrary to what\nis said publicly and what the political position\nis. We have even had some conversations lately\nabout the development of a deep water port at\nLyautey, which seems strange in view of the\npublished clamor for our departure.\nSincerely, thronas spaces\nDwinto The Eisenhowst LISTERY\nCaptain E. P. Aurand, USN\nNaval Aide to the President\nThe White House\nWashington, D. C.\nEnclosure\nNaval Installation at Port Lyautey, Morocco.\nMorocco is the western window in the Arab world.\nWhat is seen and believed of the Americans there\npersonifies the United States of America. Language\nis no barrier to visible expression of good\nwill. Here IS what they see:\nAbdel Hamid el Alaoui, Pasha of Kenitra\nAdmiral James L. Holloway, Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Easte\nAtlantic and Mediterranean, and\nCapt. J. L. Counihan, Commander, U. S. Naval Activities, Port Lyautey, Ke\ntra, Morocco.\nA good neighbor helps the needy, and\nvisits the sick; supports local charities;\nsocializes with his neighbors, and teaches\nhis neighbors' children to play golf.\nAmerican children help, too, os this\nAmerican youngster walks away with\ntop scholastic honors at Kenitra's\nLycee Abdelmalek as Saadi.\nA Red Cross Gray Lady, Mrs. David Silvey, fits\na Moroccan student with a sweater, as Ahmed\nbel Hadj, director of the Takkadoum school in\nKenitra, shows her a box of Junior Red Cross\nschool supplies collected by students at the\ndependents' school here. Clothing drives such\nas this one are a part of the massive community support\ngiven by the base at Port Lyautey/Kenitra.\nChaplain David Casazza (lower left) presents a check for\nhalf a million francs to Kenitra's Pasha (mayor) for the\nEntr'aide Nationale, Morocco's National Welfare\nOrganization. This money was raised by voluntary\ncontribution at station church services.\nNurse Van Adams (below) visits the understaffed\nlocal hospital to give technical aid.\nIn the sports field, at right, Moroccan high\nschool children learn golf from Stanley Grant,\nthe station pro.\nThe departure of Shore Patrol Investigator T.Sgt.\nCharles Moroukian, USMC, was the occasion for\nthis buffet dinner (right, center) with his work-\ning contemporaries of the Moroccan Police Depart-\nment.\nAn American Dependent who is studying at Lycee\nAbdelmalek as\nSaadi , young\nChris Blair,\ndoes credit to\nhis age group\nas he takes 3\nfirst prizes\nand 2 seconds\nat the year-end\nawards ceremony\nheld (right) by\nthe Pasha of\nKenitra , as\nCapt. H.K.Bragg\nChief Staff\nOfficer to the\nCOMNAVACTS P/L,\nlooks on.\nDEDICATION\nThis report of our People-to-People program is dedicated to the\nHonorable Thomas S. Gates, Secretary of the Navy, whose own\nexample of dedication to duty, support of the Naval Air Reserve\noverseas program, and practical People-to-People work in the\nNavy has inspired us to make this program an important effort here.\nU. S. Naval Activities\nKenitra, Morocco\nIllowinhm\nlast usn\nCummar us MANAL activities\nEisenhower The Library\nOur Job--Mak ing Friends for America\nThe most important job any American overseas has today is\nthat of making friends for America--to know and be a friend to\nthe millions of people who have neither our heritage of freedom\nnor our economic opportunities.\nProbably one of the best and most important end results of the\nforward positioning of U. S. Forces in the many lands and areas\nthroughout the world is not the military action which may or may\nnot come on our watch, but the influencing of the people of that\narea to our side in the basic struggle between freedom and tyranny.\nEach of us may be the means by which the uncommitted millions,\nwho daily struggle for existence and who hope for a better future,\nlearn about us and aspire to our way of life.\nOne learns quickly overseas that these people look to us--the\nrepresentatives of the great power of the West--to show them by our\nChristian example of the good neighbor, by our tolerance and res-\npect for their religion and way of life, by our help and assistance\nin broadening their horizons and opportunities, to make real their\nperceived image of all Americans.\nSimilarly, by our selfishness, bad example and intolerance, we\ndrive from us the very people we were sent to influence to our side.\nHere in Morocco--in Africa--in the Moslem world--we have a\nrare opportunity to carry out our work of making friends for\nAmerica. Probably in no other place can so few influence so many\nfor so little and with such promising results.\nTheir attitude toward America and the West could well be in-\nfluenced by the personal conduct and the personal example of each\nof us here on duty. In no other area is the People-to-People\nprogram so important to our success and tenure in the long pull\nahead.\nTo be a man among men, to show in oneself the proper example\nof zeal, sobriety and discipline, to be sympathetic to the needs\nand problems of the host country, to respect their laws and customs\nas we expect them to respect ours, to learn their language, to\ncommunicate our interest in their problems, these are the ways of\nmaking friends for America.\nNo citizen of the Great Republic has any more important job to\ndo--nor any more important duty here.\nJ. L. COUNIHAN\n0148!MO Library The\nPublished as an editorial in the\nPort Lyautey Log of Oct. 31, 1958\nYes, the People-to-People program gets a big play at Port\nLyautey Seven thousand Americans reside here--military personnel\nand their dependents.\nA generation of Moroccans has grown up knowing and liking them,\nfor the Navy has been here constantly since the Allied landings in\nNovember, 1942.\nEver since Morocco emerged early in 1956 as an independent\nsovereign state, there has been the inevitable cry of \"Foreigners,\ngo home\" from one end of the political spectrum. The psychological\nappeal of such a rallying cry is hard to combat.\nAnd we combat it in the only way we know how.\nBy showing them what we are, and how we think, work and act.\nBy showing them the tangible impact of our contribution to the local\neconomy, and the intangible advantages of what they have learned and\nmay still learn from us while we remain here.\nThe future of the African continent may well depend upon us.\nNever have our opportunities and our responsibilities been greater.\nEisenhower out Librant\nAgain and again, the Navy has demonstrated that its rescue\nfacilities are doing the job that would normally be done by the\nMoroccan Coast Guard, if such an organization were in existence.\nHere, helicopter crewman Frank C. Osborne, AD1, USN, is being\ncongratulated upon his return from a rescue mission to the Moroccan\ntrawler \"A1 Widad\", by Capt. J. L. Counihan, USN, Commander, U.S.\nNaval Activities, Port Lyautey, Kenitra, Morocco.\nOsborne and the pilot, LCDR Giuseppe Bello, USN took four\ncrewmen off the ship, which had foundered on the rocks at Point\nOukacha near Casablanca on Jan. 27, 1958, and brought them safely\nto shore.\nDwight D. D. Libraja\nThe\n1\nFOR\nARE OF FORWARD\nOTOR BLADES\nThe \"A1 Widad\" rescue effort was the fifth such effort within\na month by Port Lyautey based Navy planes and helicopters.\nAt right, a Navy transport plane circles overhead as Navy\nand Air Force helicopters go in to help the snowbound Moroccan\nvillagers in the Riff mountain town of Djebel des Katma, some\n7,500 feet up. Navy planes were the first to spot and circle the\nisolated mountaineers on Jan. 2nd.\nIn another search, seven stranded survivors in the bow section\nof the Norwegian oiler \"Seirstad\" were spotted Jan. 15th by a\nNeptune patrol plane of VP-26 as it drifted southeast of Minorca\nafter breaking off during a bad Mediterranean storm.\nThe pilot of the plane, LTJG A. N. Kline, found the nearby\nItalian cargo ship \"Rubicone\" by radar, and led it back to the\ndrifting survivors by flares.\nOther assists given were the helicopter rescue of the crew\nof the French cargo ship \"Pei-Ho\", which ran aground, also at\nPoint Oukacha, and the helicopter evacuation of an American citi-\nzen badly injured in an automobile accident at Cordoba, Spain.\nThe Dwight Library D.\nNavy people in Morocco have been quick to respond to local\ncalls for help. Red Cross volunteer workers are shown at right\nbefore a truckload of clothing collected for victims of a Rabat\nfire disaster, which swept through a poor district of the town.\nIn center, wearing sweater and skirt, is Princess Lalla\nAisha, who heads the Entr'aide Nationale, Morocco's national\nwelfare organization.\nThe Dwight Library\nS NAVY\n96-11617\nOFFICIAL USE UNI\nAnother appeal came in from the Moslem Takkadoum School in\nKenitra, which needed supplies for its infirmary.\nThe Officers Wives Club (OWC) at Port Lyautey volunteered\nfor this job, and members are shown presenting the medical sup-\nplies to Ahmed Bel Hadj, director of the school. OWC members\nare (1. to r.) Mrs. Otto H. Schlicht, Mrs. J. L. Counihan and\nMrs. Herbert K. Bragg.\ncisenhower Library\nThe\nINVS\n10\nBA\n\\\nGAUZE\nGAUZE\n1\nTHE\n0\n000111\nand\nThim\nUV\n$5080 REGISTRE 31100\nSPONGES GAUZE\nCROSS\n0\n3AIS3HOV\nBAY\nNO\nSome difficulty was encountered by the Officers Wives Club\nin procuring some of the medical supplies, since many of the ones\non order were long in disuse in the United States.\nBut the modern equivalents were found to the satisfaction\nof the school.\nNevertheless, this young man appears to be highly skeptical\nof the possible after effects of the disinfectant just put on his\nnewly bandaged cut.\nDoubtless he was prepared to be a martyr to science in his\nrole of \"guinea pig\".\nEisenhower Library\n041\nNaval Reserve squadrons are an important part of the People-\nto People program. Selected by the Chief of Naval Air Reserve\nTraining for overseas deployment, these citizen-sailors have done\na fine job of representing their communities over here.\nThese reservists have stirred up much interest on both sides\nof the Atlantic, since the U. S. press faithfully reports their\nexperiences in Morocco, and Moroccan newspapers and radio are\neager for details on the community which their visitors represent.\nRadio Morocco, with 27 million listeners within their 140,000\nwatt range, has broadcast a series of 12 programs catching the\nflavor of the home communities of the current visiting squadrons.\nA group of Minnesota reservists was startled in connection\nwith one of these programs by being shanghaied out of a sight-\nseeing tour and hustled into a Radio Maroc auditorium, where they\nperformed a creditable chorus of the \"Minnesota Rouser\" for one\nsuch program. Their shipmates opined that a completely new inter-\npretation of the song had been found.\nDwignt D. Library Elsenhower\n041\nI\nWITH BES\nAN\n4-1\nWISHES\nUS NAVY\nTHE SUDGESS OF A PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE PROGRAM DEPENDS UPON\nCONTACTS BETWEEN THE PEOPLES. SOMETIMES, IT DEPENDS UPON A\nMASSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXPERIENCES OF A RELATIVE FEW,\nEXPRESSED THROUGH ADEQUATE PUBLICITY.\nTHE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN THE IMPORTANCE\nOF THE ANCIENT LAND OF MOROCCO THROUGH THE EYES OF THEIR\nNEIGHBORS, THE WEEK-END-WARRIORS OF THE U.S. NAVAL AIR RESERVE\nAND NEWS EDIA ACCOMPANYING THE RESERVISTS ON THEIR ANNUAL\nCRUISE. THE NAVAL RESERVISTS HAVE FUCUSED THE ATTENTION OF\nTHE DROCOAN PEOPLE ON THE LITTLE CROSS-SECTION OF AMERICAN\nPEOPLE WITCH THEY REPRESENT BY BRINGING GOODWILL MEMENTOS\nFROM THEIR COMMUNITY TO THE MOROCOAN EOPLE. THE EXAMPLES OF\nPRESS COVERAGE MATTED ON THE PRECEDING PAGES HAVE BEEN RE-\nPEATED NINE TIMES THIS YEAR WITH SUBSTANTIAL NEWSPAPER, RADIO,\nAND TV COVERAGE IN THE MAIN POPULATION CENTERS OF THE UNITED\nSTATES, AS INDICATED ON THE MAP 18 THE CENTER OF THIS PAGE.\nKING MOMAMMED V RECEIVED AN UNDERSTANDING PRESS COVERAGE OF\nHIS RECENT TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE OF THIS FACT.\nHIS ITINERARY 18 ALSO SHOWN Oh THE MAP.\nTHUS THE RESERVE PROGRAM IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE\nBASE-WIDE EFFORT EXERTED THROUGH THE AMERICAN AND MOROCCAN\nSCHOOLS: THROUGH SPORTS AND YOUTH ACTIVITIES; AND THROUGH\nCHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS TO CREATE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING\nBETWEEN THE MOROCOAN AND AMERICAN PEOPLE.\nWHAT is SEEN AND BELIEVED OF THE AMERICANS IN KENITRA\nPERSONIFIES THE INVITED STATES OF AMERICA. MAINTENANCE OF THE\nAMERICAN POSITION IN MOROCCO DEPENDS UPON GOOD COMMUNITY\nRELATIONS, AND FLEXIBLE, RESPONSIVE COMMAND RELATIONSHIPS.\nServing as messengers of goodwill, Naval Reservists from Michigan\n(top left) arrive in Morocco with a ton of clothing for Moroccan\norphans: from Texas (top center) cowboy boots; from Oakland,\nCalifornia (left center), 36,000 pencils for school children:\nfrom Willow Grove, Pm. (right center) antibiotics; from\nWaukegan, 111., a Johnson outboard motor for Prince Moulay Abdullah\n(below map): from Minnesota, hybrid corn seed, presented by Anita\nCounthan to Princess Lalla Aicha (lower center). At the lower left\ncorner, a reservist watches a carpet being made which he will take\nback to Minnesota for presentation to Governor Drville Freeman.\nThe inscription says \"Remembrance to the People of Minnesota.\"\n(Lower right) The Future Farmers of America send via the Naval\nReservists, pure-bred Columbia sheep for a trial in MOTOCCO.\nUSI\nWE\nthrup\nDeploying squadrons have found that publicity conscious\nhometown industries are delighted to chip in with samples of their\nproduction to be used as bread-and-butter gifts.\nAside from the good initial impact as a friendly diplomatic\ngesture of presentation, these gifts serve as semi-permanent\nmonuments to Moroccan-American friendship.\nHere Princess Lalla Aisha, eldest daughter of the King, looks\nover an Onan gasoline-driven generator, which is now providing\nelectrical power for a back country Moroccan hospital.\nThis generator was part of a group of presents brought over\nby VR-813 of Minneapolis, presents which included new antibiotics\nfor use in fighting trachoma (a prevalent eye disease here) and\nnotably hybrid corn seed which is particularly well adapted for\ngrowth under local conditions.\nAnother Minneapolis squadron, VP-812, followed through with\nnew insecticide sprays and three pedigreed Columbia sheep, as well\nas 75 ampoules of frozen semen from three gold-medal American bulls.\nOther reserve squadrons also brought along \"presents with a\nfuture\", and VR-771 and VP-776, both of Los Alamitos, came through\nwith 36,000 pencils for Morocco's school children and some sample\ncases of a new basic food mixture, which can be developed locally\nfor emergency famine use, as well as a basic staple.\nThe wight D. Library Elsenhown\nMorocco's papers give the Navy a good press, as the enclosed\nclippings on VP-812 activities testify.\nIn fact, the press is sometimes too enthusiastic, and the\nCOMNAVACTS Public Information Officer sometimes has the unique\njob for his position of attempting to tone down the overly lyrical\nefforts of our admirers in order to keep them from scribbling out\nblank checks that the Navy can't cash.\nEisenhower Library\nThe\nyillär, y/o ,GUI zis,\nvar well\n&\nJOYI E\nits\n1377\nw\n#\n-\n5\nS.A.R. Lalla Aicha\nreçoit des dons\nI\naméricains pour\nCm\n5\nAnd the Moroccan people come to know the Americans. \"One recog-\nnizes that Minnesota is situated in a most favored part of the\nUnited States, and now we have proof that its inhabitants are\nthe nicest.\" Naval reservists from the Naval Air Station, Minn-\neapolis, were messengers for gifts exchanged between the peoples\nof Minnesota and Morocco. They are ambassadors of good will.\nölställ\n5.A.R. Lalia AICHA reçoit\ndes dons américains\npour l'Entr'aide Nationale\nECONOMIC AND BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS\nSheep. Seed and Bug-Killers-\nEssai d'élevage de moutons\nAMERICAN\nof\nd'Amérique au Maroc\nGIFTS FOR\nMOROCCO\nbia\nairment\n1\nFermies\n1\nSheep Gift for MoΓocco,\nI\nbruis\nqualent\nhas\ncomité\nVelevant\n1\n-\nmark\nAnd the United States Press is kind to us too.\nThe montage at right gives an idea of the depth of coverage\ngenerated back home by the visit of one VR and one VP squadron to\nPort Lyautey in a joint deployment. Such coverage has been dupli-\ncated in other areas nine times this year.\nNaval Reservists see Signts or Morocco\nFrom Los Alamitos to Europe, Win Friends in Morocco\n-\n-\nI\nReserve Pilots Fly Overseas\nBurbankers Abroad\nWith Navy Squadron\nMarages\nFly\nseas\nI\nLes\nbelowy\nI\n11198\nO2 information 0 and $47 SEN so PUB $748 opportum Tablet atudad and DUE STate UT puel OF 30 Auna\nI\nNoval Officer Hops' to Europe\nNorwalk Man Sees Europe,\nAfrica Via Navy Transport\nels\nutego\nthe\nof\nI\nin\nMorocco\n1\nAfrica\nI\nI\nstate\nClothing\nDonated\nCALIFOR:\nAirlift to 1\nGL\nF\n-\nwas\naval Air Reservists Back\nrom Tour in North Africa\n-\nI\n,\nReserve Squad\nLes\nAlamitos\nMiddle East\nMorocco Overcoming\nDarkness of Illiteracy\n-\nAbbrovisted Language Teaches Reading,\nWriting in Lessons: Trabled\nil\n-\n-\nI\n11\nI\n-\ni\n3 Returns\nInsury\nFrom\nBay\nFlight\nStow Away' With\nI\n-\nHIS\nEXCELLENCY\nHadi\nBennani\n(right),\nof\nNaval Air Reserve\nfor\nKing\nof\nthe\nfilm\nU.S.A.\n(center),\nin\n=\nofficer\nFarm\nof\nof\nthe\nof\nin\nthe\nof\nof\nby\nCalif-\nwas\nof\nthe\nmost\nenjoyable\nparts\nof\nto\nthe\nUnited\n-\nDecember.\nevedores Use Airiane\nPlas Naval Reservists Take Part\nNorth African Training Airlift\nentire\nPRESENTS-Comdr.Nick\nDollas, C.O. of VR 773,\nLymater\nfits young resident of o\nPort Lyoutey orphanage\n]\nwith o shirt included in\nthe 400 pounds of cloth-\ning that the unit flew to\nMorocco os gift of Camp\nTHE LOG\nFire Girls of Long Beach.\nFire Get\nI\nI\nI\nI\nNaval Reserve Aviato\nBenneni\nfor Two Weeks in Afr\nI,P-T Reporter\nI\nAccompany\nLocal Squadron\nDUTY\nMorocco Seeks New\nNew\nJ.S. Financial Aid\n$\nUnit TO R\nClothing\nMoroccar\nLOS ALAMITOS NAVAL RESERVISTS OFF TC\n'Weekend Warriors' Busy in Africa\n-\n-\nNevel\nCrude\nName\nPeople-to-People contact has been encouraged at all levels\nby the Navy, and has been particularly successful among groups\nof nurses and school teachers, who have exchanged visits at their\nrespective schools and hospitals.\nHere a Navy nurse visits a smiling young Moroccan patient\nin Kenitra's Canterac Hospital.\nDwight Library Discohomer\n140\nO\n10\nAnd medical men from Kenitra reciprocate with pleasure\nin a visit to the Navy station hospital.\nD. Library\na ey\nWARD C\nOB-GYN\nLABORATORY\nWARD B\nRMACY\nYoungsters and sports made a sure-fire combination in terms of\ncrowd appeal at the mid-summer Mehdia Lake festival, which the whole\nKenitra area turned out to celebrate.\nAll Kenitra had a chance here to watch the American game, and\nto get an idea of what goes into the making of an American.\nIf anyone got a good idea of baseball at the game, it probably\nwasn't through one of the local papers, which published this highly\nstylized version of the game:\n\"Base-ball is a game which is played between two teams of\nnine players each. Naturally there is a ball, and an engine to\nplay with which is called 'bat'.\n\"The ground on which the play is going on is square and in\nthe middle there is a round place called 'diamond' where the \"pit-\ncher' is staying. He is charged to send the ball to the 'catcher',\nthis man is placed in the 'home-plate' from where the ball has been\nsent and has to return to.\n\"The other players are outside the ground and are called\nBoutfielders'. These men will get in the field when the players\nwill throw the ball three times outside the lines and will be dis-\nqualified.\n\"The man who sends the ball back to the 'home-plate' is sup-\nposed to be the winner. Finally, it is really an unrestrained\nrun and the base-ball game is a very tiring sport! It is very\nEluenhower Library\npopular in England but especially in America!\"\nOwner\n140\nAlso of value in promoting mutual understanding are the\ncompetitive individual and team sports, such as this invitational\nswimming meet, shown at the beginning of the 50-meter backstroke\nfinals.\nThe Air Station basketball team has also become well known\nin town, since it began signing up local athletic clubs as a\nregular part of its schedule.\nD. 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