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...islanders decided to do away with hereditary rule and elect new Sultans by popular vote. The first elected Sultan promptly abdicated. His successor, Prime Minister Amir Didi, was perfectly willing to run the government, but he chafed at the travel restrictions. So did his nephew, Amin Didi, who was designated to succeed...
Ungrateful Stooge. The French have no patience with the nationalist pretensions of 71-year-old Sidi Mohammed el-Amin. Unlike the Sultan of Morocco, who is a genuine descendant of the Prophet, the Bey is a semiliterate ex-Turkish functionary whom the French in 1943 hand-picked as their stooge. For him now to oppose proffered French "reforms" as insufficient they regard as rank ingratitude. Last week, no longer finicky about U.N. reaction, France's Cabinet dispatched a "stern and clear" ultimatum to the Bey: capitulate or suffer unspecified consequences, possibly deposition from his million-dollar job. Within...
...MOSTAFA AMIN PUBLISHERS OF AKHBAR...
...publishers of the largest and best string of newspapers and magazines in the Middle East, big (238 Ib.) Mustafa Amin and his identical (238 Ib.) twin brother Ali have rightly earned a reputation for being vigorous democrats and courageous reformers. Their weekly Akhbar el Yom (News of the Day-circ. 150,000) and five other publications hammer at government corruption. Yet just before dawn one day last week, eight Egyptian army officers armed with Tommy guns and acting in the name of reform swooped down on the brothers' Cairo home and arrested them. Readers of their papers were astounded...
...Tunisia, since the bloody riots last January, he had seen sabotage flicker over the country like heat lightning. Eleven post offices, seven bridges, 15 trains, 646 telephone poles had been blown up. Every time De Haute-cloque tried for a man-to-man interview with Sidi Mohammed el-Amin, the Bey of Tunis, whom Tunisians regard as their ruler, he found the 70-year-old Bey flanked by nationalist cabinet men. Finally, his patience worn thin, De Hautecloque ordered the Bey to throw the cabinet out. When the Bey appealed over the Resident's head to France...