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Moroccan Intervention. At last, Hassan himself decided to intervene, and he chose an ingenious way to do it. Last week Dlimi, his secret-police aide, boarded a Royal Air Maroc Caravelle in Casablanca and flew-suitably disguised and with a fake passport-to Paris. The next afternoon, just as the trial of the six defendants was drawing to a close, Dlimi calmly showed up at the court and surrendered to French authorities...
...typically, embedded in a 3,000-word communiqué that was both verbose and confused. The other parties, mostly leftist and vaguely socialist, backed the King with a few reservations because they were sympathetic to the idea of authoritarian rule. Speaking for the financial community, Casablanca's daily Maroc-Informations said that businessmen "will be able to talk cogently with men of real authority now that the parliamentary masquerade is ended...
...clashes, 150 rebels and 60 royal soldiers were killed. Held off on land, the Crown Prince commandeered smugglers' craft in Tangier harbor 175 miles awa)', hired a British-owned ferryboat, and landed troops at Alhucemas by sea. Commercial aircraft of Royal Air Maroc were pressed into service to transport supplies, despite the protests of the French pilots who were forced to fly them...
Casablanca's daily Maroc-Presse braved threats, bombings and assassinations last year in the classic role of a newspaper sticking courageously to an unpopular editorial position. By urging negotiation with moderate Moroccan nationalists, the paper outraged French extremists, who beat up its staffers, smashed its offices, machine-gunned Publisher Jacques Le-maigre-Dubreuil to death (TIME, Aug. 8). Last fall the crusade triumphed: the French negotiated, just as Maroc-Presse urged, and restored Sultan ben Youssef. But the paper itself did not fare so well as its crusade. After the sultan's return, the suppressed Arab dailies reappeared...
...time the paper ran through a trust fund left by its slain publisher, circulation had dived from 55,000 to fewer than 20,000, and wealthy Moroccans would lend no money. Last week Maroc-Presse tasted the bitter fruit of its victory: the paper that bombs could not intimidate folded under the crush of its deficit...