Word: marrakech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonial Police State. Sultan Ben Youssef's crime had been to lend his royal support to the nationalist movement. His mortal enemy was cunning old El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakech and leader of Morocco's 3,000,000 Berbers, a mountain people who hate the Arabs. The French backed El Glaoui, and replaced Ben Youssef with a stooge loyal to both France and the Berbers: Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, who is aged, weak and unpopular...
Knowledgeable French sources say that France-Soir's stories, though sometimes embellished, are essentially true. Some relatives of the dead victims, demanding blood money, have launched complaints in Casablanca, and an investigation has been started. Ben Youssef's implacable Berber enemy, the old Pasha of Marrakech, is supposed to have had a hand in spreading the stories. The French Foreign Office professes to be horrified. Digging up old tales about him at this time, said a Quai d'Orsay spokesman properly, is "not fair play...
...hounds across the rolling greens of Ireland as the guest of Hollywood Director John Huston. In the last five years, he has gone to even greater lengths in the interest of his column. He has bobsledded at St. Moritz, dined at the pasha's palace at Marrakech, French Morocco, and at the Marquis de Cuevas' fancy-dress ball at Biarritz (TIME, Sept. 14), he turned up barelegged, bewigged and dressed as an American Indian with a sign on his back: "Us Go Home." "It's simply amazing," says Buchwald, "to think I've been...
...most powerful influence among the Berbers is that of Si el Hadj Thami el Mezouari el Glaoui, the aged, cunning and ruthless Pasha of Marrakech. Once a bandit in the southern Moroccan desert, El Glaoui began helping the French in 1912, the first year of the protectorate; he sheltered some French citizens from possible slaughter by rebels. The late great Marshal Lyautey was so pleased that he put the onetime bandit in charge of his Moroccan troops. Eventually El Glaoui became the local ruler of a large territory, and acquired a considerable fortune from mine dividends, taxes and miscellaneous "gifts...
...five-day tour of North African air bases, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway took time out to join a hunting party in the Atlas mountains organized by the Pasha of Marrakech. The trip's bag: 17 mountain goats...