Two leaders of the Jewish community of Casablanca have resigned from its executive, it was announced today. The resignations seem linked to a reported campaign expected to be launched soon in the Moroccan Jewish communities to replace the current leadership with younger, nationalist-minded men.
Dr. Leon Benzaquen. Minister of Posts and Telegraph and the only Jew in the Moroccan Cabinet, presented the Sultan of Morocco today with an album containing a full set of the first series of Moroccan postage stamps to bear the portrait of the Sultan. This is the first time in the history of the country that a Sultan’s portrait has been used on a stamp.
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