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...loose federation of three largely autonomous regions: the rural Christian and pagan Eastern Nigeria of the Ibo tribesmen; the Christian and pagan West of the Yoruba, rich with cocoa profits; and the Moslem North of the Hausa and Fulani, where powerful emirs struggle to protect the traditions of a feudal past. Each section hates and distrusts the others. Her Majesty's government has offered Nigeria various plans for independence, but, says one native minister: "We are not ready...
With a few figures, your "Decay in the Desert" makes it startlingly clear why King Saud trembles with anger and fear at the very thought of Israel. This young, vigorous neighboring democracy is a palpable threat to his disease-festered, corruption-ridden, feudal police-state...
Pillar of Wisdom. For 25 years Nuri es-Said, who after breaking with the Turks fought heroically beside Lawrence of Arabia in his World War I desert campaigns, has dominated Iraqi politics. He shares control of the country with 20 or so feudal sheiks and big Baghdad landholders. At the last election in 1954, Nuri es-Said and his sheiks obviously had things well under control: on election day, 122 of the 135 parliamentary seats were uncontested. Democracy this may not be, but by Middle East standards, it is good government. Now in his 15th premiership and growing frail...
...Rabat airport, Mohammed V stepped from a life of luxurious discontent into a chaos caused by the abdication of the French and a vying among the Moroccans themselves, some to retain their feudal fiefs, others to spread violence born of ignorance, a few to seek a difficult adjustment between ancient ways, present misery and future progress. Glowed one Moroccan: "The Sultan's exile was a great thing. We've achieved a political and national consciousness we weren't able to build in 40 years." But Morocco, unlike Tunisia, has few modern institutions of government, and Mohammed...
Seydou decided to get some service out of the ancient feudal officers at his father's court. The royal Master of Ceremonies was put in charge of street cleaning; the Keeper of the Weapons was made health commissioner; the general of the nonexistent army was made chief truant officer. With French government help, a new industry, coffee culture, was introduced, and-in direct answer to the newly literate demands of the Sultan's people-a postal service was begun. "With tradition as the father and modernization, brought by the French, as mother," said the Sultan, "we shall produce...