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...Moroccan nationalists, as representative of ex-Sultan Ben Youssef. But French colonists feared the influence of Si Bekkai, whom they regarded as a dangerous extremist. Final solution was to dilute Si Bekkai's influence by adding not one but two more "moderate" members-one a young (38), obscure Berber chieftain called Si Tahar ou Ali Assou Loudyi, the other an old (71), respected jurist and doctor of Koranic law, Si Mohammed Sbihi. The council's first task: to designate a Moroccan Premier to form a representative Moroccan government...
...Violence increased in both Algeria and Morocco. In Morocco, 700 Berber tribesmen burst out of the Atlas Mountains southeast of Fez and fell on the small French outpost of Imouzzer des Marmoucha. At exactly the same time, 90 miles to the north, other bands attacked the small town of Boured and two nearby outposts facing the border of Spanish Morocco. The besiegers cut roads, demolished bridges, held up French relief columns for six days before melting back into the hills. The attackers were highly organized, well armed, and skillfully directed by uniformed officers. The French bitterly charged that they were...
World War II: Commanded a Moroccan troop in France, was wounded when the Germans broke the Maginot line. De Latour escaped to North Africa, raised levies among the Berber tribes, led them in Allied landings on Corsica and Elba. In 1946 he was promoted to brigadier general...
...West Point. Returned to the trenches with a Moroccan regiment, won his first Croix de Guerre (he now has three, embellished with 17 palms). Fought against the Riffian tribes of Abd el Krim in Morocco in the 1920s, stayed on as a native-affairs officer. Speaks Arabic and the Berber dialects fluently...
...secret of El Glaoui's success is his usefulness to the French. Whenever the Arabs made trouble, Paris called on El Glaoui to raise his Berber levies and help restore order. El Glaoui still maintains that he is the chief of the Berbers. He got a bad shock last week when the Berbers joined the Arabs in massacring the French, and sent a letter to Paris calling El Glaoui a "myth...