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[[in red]] Morroco [[underline]] Casablanca [[/underline]] [[/in red]]
king broken English keeps on following me and repeatedly shows me flag of U.S. Consulate then tells me [[red underline]] American Consul has returned to day [[/red underline]] with an [[red underline]]"English" friend. [[/red underline]] Then tells me his mother is cook at American Consul. and later on found out from [[red underline]] Bradford [[/red underline]] the Consul that several times the boy has tried to stow-away and thus get to U.S. ^[[Boy]] [[strikethrough]] He [[/strikethrough]] says his father works in Brooklyn and sends his mother sometime 10 and 20 Dollars but has married in Paris while he was a soldier in French army and has 2 children there A long walk thru crowded streets of old town. I notice quite a number of bareheaded boys and men who have [[red underline]] hair all shaven [[/red underline]] except a
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[[in red]] [[underline]] Casablanca [[/underline]] Morroco [[/in red]]
[[red underline]] long hair lock [[/red underline]] on one side which gives them a barbarous look. Many French soldiers and uniforms. Lively restaurants and cafes. Notice many motor buses for Marakech, Rabat and Fez. Large number of [[red underline]] Fords [[/red underline]] and other american automobles. [[red underline]] But motor busses. [[/red underline]] are [[red underline]] Dion Bouton [[/red underline]] Panhard Levassor and Hispano Sueza.
Afternoon had [[strikethrough]] lunch [[/strikethrough]] ^[[tea]] [[red underline]] at Consuls [[/red underline]] appartament where he lives with [[red underline]] his old mother. [[/red underline]] Tea is Moroccan tea of [[red underline]] mint leaves [[/red underline]] in hot water - good.
April 9. Walking around town Drew $100 at [[strikethrough]] Br [[/strikethrough]] British Bank of W. Africa Rate 1$ = 14.50 francs. Walked around new town then old town. Notice in [[red underline]] Jewish quarter, [[/red underline]] Jews and Jewish women make a better impression than the average moor