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Muzzle-Loaders & Missionaries. Fortnight ago, as Berber tribesmen from Rif peaks shot off ancient muzzle-loaders and sent up wild, ululating cries of jubilation, Morocco's King Mohammed toured the Unity Road, found it navigable, though rough, for its entire length of 35 miles...
...late El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, was everything Morocco's modem nationalists despised. He was France's chief collaborator. For decades his Berber warriors had helped impose French wishes on the restive Arabs of the cities, and engineered the exile of Sultan Mohammed V. His power was feudal; his revenues, ranging from levies on Marrakech's prostitutes to commissions on every commercial transaction in his domain, had made him rich beyond any man's dreams...
Even General de Gaulle has been stirred to offer a "solution" for Algeria. De Gaulle's plan: partition the country into ethnic communities (French, Berber, Arab, etc.) in a "mutation of empire" where the "autonomy would be great but the framework rigid," the whole to be part of a "French ensemble." Such a solution would probably have to be imposed, since the National Liberation Front demands recognition of Algeria's complete independence as the first condition of an armistice. But France, which has sent 700,000 troops to Algeria since the war began and is spending over...
Whenever the Sultan showed signs of obduracy. El Glaoui would summon Berber horsemen down from the hills to surround the Arab towns in ragged but menacing array. In 1951, Juin forced a showdown, demanding that the Sultan condemn the Istiqlal and fire all nationalists from the government. Berber horsemen headed for Rabat, and Juin had a plane waiting at the airport to carry Mohammed V to exile if he balked. Glumly, Mohammed V capitulated; he denounced "violence," but he refused to condemn the Istiqlal. To Juin, it was clear that Mohammed would have...
...that Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez armes!" cried Addi. The ..warriors snapped to attention, then let their rifles fall to the ground, a symbol of surrender. The ceremony was followed by an ample lunch, attended by Addi...