Word: glaoui
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specialist, Gunther has never learned a foreign language. His critics also take him to task for deliberately passing up fundamentals for froth. Inside Africa, chided the sober Times of India, has only "one page dealing with the Moroccan economy, and four giving an account of a dinner with El Glaoui...
...French forthwith forbade her to speak in public, correctly identifying her as one of those dangerously progressive forces encouraging nationalism. So did feudal old El Glaoui of Marrakech, who barnstormed the country flourishing a news picture of Aisha in a bathing suit, lolling on a beach with her brother, Prince Moulay Hassan. This was the kind of outrage that Sultan ben Youssef was bringing upon them, he cried. El Glaoui did not rest until he got the French to send the Sultan, Aisha, and the rest of the royal family (two wives, two other daughters, two sons, a gaggle...
...Spot. All this was too much for the militant progressives of Morocco's 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...
...Sultan was on the spot. Just before El Glaoui died last year at 80, the old man had groveled abjectly before the man he had forced into exile, begging forgiveness. The Sultan had granted it, and promised royal protection for El Glaoui's sons and heirs. But the militant Istiqlal had no such inhibitions. It called on the Moundamah Seria, an irregular secret police organized by the Istiqlal during the battle for independence. On May Day the Moundamah Seria's armed men moved. One Glaoui son was seized as he drove through the old medina. Three others were...
Taking Credit. The Sultan was appalled, and sent his Marrakech police to investigate. But the Moundamah Seria refused to admit them to the palace, refused to 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...