1963/09/01 by Anthony S. Reyner · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #African history and culture studies #Protectorate #Declaration #Sovereignty #Square (algebra) #Politics #Geography #Political science #International relations #Economic history #Ancient history #Law #History
paper · doi:10.1017/s0022278x00001725
openalex publication_date 1963/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The chain reaction set off in Paris by the Franco-Moroccan Declaration of 2 March 1956 still reverberates in the politics of north-west Africa. On that day, France ended 44 years of its protectorate over Morocco, restored to Mohamed V full sovereignty over 162, 120 square miles of land and some seven million people, and pledged ‘to respect, and see to it that others respect, the integrity of Moroccan territory, as guaranteed by international treaties’. 1