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...Replace Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, the puppet Sultan whom the French installed in Morocco two years ago, with a three-man regency council. Its senior member: El Mokri, 108, Morocco's feeble old Grand Vizier...
Black Hand. The French replaced Ben Youssef with a wizened old weakling, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. From that act, more than anything else, stemmed the Moroccan revolt...
...Nationalists denounced Moulay Arafa as a puppet and usurper. In the great mosque at Fez, the bearded priests of the Prophet issued a solemn edict: "In the name of Islam and the Moroccan people we demand the return of the legal sovereign, Ben Youssef." Istiqlal's moderate leaders, most of them French-educated businessmen with little stomach for violence, pleaded with their followers to avoid bloodshed, and petitioned the French for reforms...
Faure's solution was a rewrite of Gilbert Grandval's plan to solve the throne question. He proposed to 1) remove Moulay Arafa-thus pleasing the Nationalists. 2) maintain the ban on Ben Youssef-thus pleasing the French colons. A three-man regency council would take the Sultan's place, and alongside it would be formed a provisional Moroccan government, with representatives of all parties, including the still-outlawed Istiqlal...
...Moslems throughout North Africa, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, the French puppet Sultan, is a false prophet and usurper. Last month the Moroccans served notice that La Date Fatidique would be a day of prayer and demonstrations for Moulay Arafa's removal and Ben Youssef's return. Terrorist tracts, bearing the black crescent sign of the Arab underground, quickly made plain what this might mean. In the sacred name of Allah, the tracts urged all Moroccans to "avenge our dead heroes cut down by Imperialist French bullets...