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From the moment his plane touched down at Nice airport last week, Morocco's ex-Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef made clear he was not returning as a suppliant, grateful to be allowed to return from remote Madagascar to a more congenial clime. Two hundred Moroccans stood in the drizzling rain to cheer him as he descended, svelte in grey djellabah and white pointed slippers, and followed by his two sons, four daughters, two wives and 19 veiled concubines. The Foreign Ministry had ordered a Riviera hotel specially reopened for him. But after only one night, Ben Youssef abruptly...
...Rabat, newspapers carrying the hitherto forbidden photograph of Sultan ben Youssef were being snatched from newsstands by happy purchasers, many of whom ostentatiously kissed the image of the Sultan. At week's end, as the Sultan was flown from exile in Madagascar to a Riviera villa, it did not require a great gift of prophecy to forecast his early return to Morocco...
...French general with eight police inspectors, 30 gendarmes and a section of paratroopers drew up in a hurry outside the Hotel des Thermes in Madagascar one day last week. They came not to try the golf course, to splash in the pool or to take the waters (which are said to be good for that old weakspot of Frenchmen, the liver). They came instead to see a splendidly installed prisoner, the exiled Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. French General Georges Catroux, 78, found His Majesty waiting for him in a nearby villa once occupied by Aly Khan...
Back from Madagascar. General C-troux's mission was to win Ben Youssef's approval for Premier Edgar Faure's ingenious plan to settle the Moroccan crisis (TIME, Sept. 5). The French propose to depose the present puppet Sultan. Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, but not to restore Ben Youssef, who would, however, be able to leave Madagascar and live more luxuriously in France...
...Return the exiled Sultan ben Youssef from Madagascar to France...