Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...dominant Istiqlal (Independence) Party. Worried about a nationwide drought which has cut food supplies, concerned over growing unemployment in the cities as French capital withdraws, the Istiqlal looked upon the gathering of the Glaoui clan as both an exasperation and an opportunity to divert discontent. Pointing to the "feudal lords" and "collaborators" driving their big cars through the hungry countryside, trade unionists shouted in the streets of Marrakech: "El Glaoui's wealth must be returned to the people...
...release the Glaoui sons until the huge estate could be examined and any fraudulent holdings returned to "the people." While the French government demanded the sons' release, the Sultan dithered, torn between his pledge of protection to El Glaoui's sons and the awkwardness of backing his feudal enemy against his Istiqlal supporters. The Sultan was reluctant to admit that he was not in full control of his young country. After 36 hours of hesitation, he audaciously decided to take credit for the whole thing. A government communiqué announced that the Glaoui sons "have been engaged...
...Thus the middle class has been increased in numbers, while there has been no class lovingly devoted--like the Russian peasant--to the land. Although we realize that mere economic measures would not bring about the desired social structure, it is also true that the older European corporate and feudal system was partially broken down by just such a levelling process as that of the graduated income tax. By reversing that economic process, we might well bring about a situation in which a status society could be re-achieved. One of the most desirable features of such a society would...
Women Being Murdered. The first effect of the marriage law, just as the Communists hoped, was to release a huge portion of the population from the feudal bondage of fathers and husbands to serve the new state in work cadres. The women, among other privileges, got the equality of the hoe and the lathe. By 1953 more than 1,000,000 women held jobs in Red China's industry. Mao Tse-tung's air force today has a squadron of jet fighters manned entirely by women. But the Red marriage law could not change...