Al Maghrib May 10, 1937

In northern and eastern Morocco, a human being has lost track of the number of hunger bouts. When one attempts to come to his aid one finds him like a lifeless cadaver. There men surrender to total deprivation resulting in (one of) lifes atrocities. The Lord knows that this situation is at the least humiliating. Man bares his grievances and cries in famine after being overwhelmed by a crisis which has taken all he possessed.. He is left to beg for a piece of bread, not finding any.

Why are we not calling on other nations to ask for humanitarian aid in the interest of those of our compatriots who are dying of hunger? In our times, nations tend to join together to provide aid and needed assistance to those amongst them that have been hit by the scourge of famine in order to alleviate their misery and suffering.

A few years ago a major undertaking was organized at the global level to assist the starving in Russia and the disaster victims in China. Also a few years ago, Moroccans organized a drive to collect funds and food to assist the French victims of war and the floods that ravaged the French countryside.. Why do todays well off nations not give us aid in turn and why does not France, the protector of Morocco, participate in a humanitarian operation to help us confront the scourge of misery that we are suffering this very hour? Such is the appeal we make today to the government with the hope that this appeal will be followed by action. The nations that figure among the civilized States should be bound by duty to aid nations in difficulty and to rescue anyone in peril. The French nation, for its part, (should) occupy the front row amongst these nations.