Word: glaoui
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...Juin unshaven and by committing himself wholeheartedly to the Istiqlal, smuggling leaders into the palace, sometimes in trucks delivering groceries. In the classic divide-and-conquer style. Juin assiduously cultivated the antagonism of the mountain Berbers for the urban Arabs. He made a special ally of rich old El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, who claimed to command some 300,000 fighting Berbers...
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...
...camel market in Marrakech, their car was stopped by a mob, who shot both men, dragged their bodies to a nearby garbage heap and set them afire. Another mob burst into the home of Bel Mekki, shot him, cut up his body and tossed the pieces into a fire. Glaoui's old guards were caught, put into carts, tortured publicly, burned alive. Throughout the day and night mobs rampaged through the native quarters of Marrakech committing further horrors. "Don't mix in this," a huge, bare-to-the-waist Moor told one French...
Before he died of cancer last winter El Glaoui, the wily and tyrannical Pasha of Marrakech, had groveled before the new Morocco, represented by Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (TIME, Nov. 21), and had been forgiven. But a good many of the new Moroccans bitterly remembered the bloody clubs with which El Glaoui's police, protected by the French, had for years enforced an arbitrary justice in their city. They remembered the huge levies collected at gunpoint to swell his coffers. Feeling that the returned Sultan had let the old pasha off far too easily, they formed an underground...
Died. Hadj Thami el Mezouari el Glaoui, eightyish, wily Pasha of Marrakech; of cancer; in Marrakech, Morocco. Berber Chieftain El Glaoui was named Pasha in 1908 for helping depose his first Sultan, rode to immense wealth (estimated at $50 million) from tithes on almond, saffron and olive harvests, profits from stocks in French-run mines, rebates on imported cars and machinery, reputed revenue from 6,000 prostitutes. His power rested on 30,000 tribesmen whom he used to enforce French colonial policies. In 1953 El Glaoui, an astute sniffer of political winds, aided the French in selling out the legitimate...