Al Maghrib - the available copy did not appear on the date of release, but the paper would have been published on the eve of the Student Conference planned for mid-September 1937.

For several months, the Moroccan students have been asking that they be accorded the necessary aid and financial assistance to complete their studies abroad or in Morocco. However all requests were rejected. The majority of these students were left in despair seeing that they were headed towards a dim future and would be forced to give up their cherished ambition to pursue a higher education.

And so, Morocco was condemned as in previous years, to be deprived of the further development of a certain number of its students who were amongst the most intelligent of the schooled youth. It would be faced with an irrecoverable loss, factoring in the politics of the Directorate of Education which constituted a major roadblock between Morocco's youth and their aspiration for higher education.

Every year this Directorate would arrange matters so Moroccan youth would hardly go beyond a primary schooling certificate, proposing instead some low level of employment to detract them from pursuing their future studies. It erects a series of obstacles in front of every student signed up for secondary schooling to such a point that it becomes impossible to iron out all difficulties they encounter during their studies. They find themselves obliged to interrupt and even quit school, hopeless about the future and totally worn out in the present.

Faced with the refusal by the Directorate of Education to the demands made by our students, Moroccans felt offended by this conduct, recognizing the dishonest intentions which preside over the deliberate use of this policy and with the disastrous consequences it bore on the schooling of their children.

The national newspapers published articles denouncing the policy followed every year by the Directorate of Education. Last week an official communique was published announcing that this year's demands presented by the students will be re-examined in light of additional credits that His Excellence, the Resident General of France in Rabat, intends to allot to the budget reserved for the upbringing of Moslems.

We refuse to make comments on such a communique before being made aware of the supporting measures to be taken to grant the announced aid. We have had enough of official communiques. We demand funds favorable to our students, as well as a disbursement of these funds that is just and exempt of any favoritism.

We demand the implementation of a clear and distinct process so all can benefit and not be at the mercy of the so called good intentions of the education administration to which the totality of Moroccans award a certificate of bad conduct for its direction and behavior with respect to the schooled children.

We hope that the Administration examines with speed and highest urgency the demands addressed to them so that the communique they just published does not become a simple rag of paper like all those projects whose implementation was previously announced to the benefit of Moroccans but never saw execution.

The Moroccan press will be the first to acknowledge the posture of the higher authorities in this matter if it sees that it bears satisfying results.