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At The hour of Independance: The Moroccan Political Situation viewd by the Portuguese Diplomacy. - The reports of the Portuguese embassies in Rabat and in Paris offer a less known point of view on the beginning of the Moroccan independentist movement. In 1950, the decolonization of the Maghreb seemed still faraway and even more the one in sub-Saharan Africa. The geographical position of the Moroccan territory (very close to the Portuguese \"Metr6pole\" and in position to influence its Western Africa colonies) gave double priority to Lisbon's surveillance on the evolution of the French Protectorate. These judgments on this close future, especially because produced from the outside, become an interesting contribution for a better knowledge on Moroccan's society of the time (Raul M. Braga Pires).

The Rise and Fall of a Neutralist Morocco. - In the winter of 1960-61 the foreign policy of Morocco took a different and unexpected shift. The replacement of French Mistral planes by Soviet Migs, soon followed by other significant political episodes, meant this was more than a market's option for military equipment. For western observers it meant that the Kingdom was on the eve of a complete change of alliances. And for the Portuguese Foreign Ministry in particular, the Morocco's new stand should be closely watched. There was the UNO context (whose decolonisation commission had Morocco as a member), the fact that Angolan nationalist movements could gain a new international platform of aid in the Atlantic shore of Africa, and, above all, the fact that the Portuguese opposition could now have a closer shelter to act against the Lisbon government. Yet, both countries had in common the peculiarity that their internal policy was heavily dependent on foreign - and even colonial - affairs. The quick evolution of the international context soon made the period of mutual suspiction to fade away (Maciel Santos).