Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Something. A stern but proud father, Mohammed zealously oversaw his children's education. As his daughters grew older, he concluded that there was nothing in the Koran that required veils for women, encouraged them to go barefaced. But mostly he concentrated on his eldest son, Moulay Hassan. When only three, Moulay Hassan remembers, his father took him to a diplomatic reception and told him: "You must speak, say something, anything."; The little boy sat through the evening sucking his thumb. When the guests had gone, his father angrily thrust him into a corner. Says Moulay Hassan...
...careful not to fall. When you light a match, you're careful not to burn yourself. Why? Because you love yourself. You don't want to hurt yourself. But the love you have for yourself is nothing compared to the love I have for you." Moulay Hassan studied law. Now the heir apparent, intelligent and self-confident, Moulay Hassan collects fast cars, says, "I've never felt inferior to anyone except my father...
Well aware that Morocco needs French capital, Mohammed V reacted with typically shrewd sense. He appointed 27-year-old Prince Moulay Hassan commander of the Royal Moroccan Army (trained and equipped by the French), and sent him out to disband the Liberation Army by swearing its men into the Sultan's own force. Steely-nerved Moulay Hassan had soon sworn in some 5,000 irregulars, sent the rest home except for some holdouts mostly in the deep south. The Sultan himself toured all Morocco, traveling in a huge caravan and camping in tents on the plains. Talking to crowds...
General Mohammed Hassan Abdel Latif as civil governor of Gaza...
Down Arms. In Rabat young (28) Prince Regent Moulay Hassan summoned the Cabinet and called his father Ben Youssef on the phone. Next morning the Moroccan state radio broadcast a royal proclamation declaring that Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez...