Word: marrakech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shorter pieces, such as "Why I Write" (which contains the statement quoted at the head of this review), "Marrakech," and articles on such diverse topics as "nationalism," anti-Semitism, and broadcasting poetry, maintain the same stimulating pace and tone...
...palace grounds in Marrakech, a photographer got a rare picture of the Sultan of Morocco at play. The result: a rubber-soled Mohammedan sovereign in Western dress and sub-Wimbledon form...
...includes 4,500,000 Moorish Arabs, 4,000,000 Berbers, 350,000 French. The Berbers, bigger and blonder than the Arabs, are Moslems but they have their own language, and their religion permits them to eat wild pigs and drink alcoholic beverages. Headed by the foxy old Pasha of Marrakech, the Berbers are much more friendly to the French than are the Arabs. The French count heavily on them in case of trouble...
...later, the Sultan met Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some 4,000,000 Berber tribesmen.* Sometimes called the French Sultan, El Glaoui had acquired wealth and power as a result of past loyalty to the French...
...leaked to the press from a Paris official last week. No time was being lost. Bulldozers had already been unloaded in French Morocco, the first group of engineers was on the ground, ships laden with airfield equipment were en route. The seven Moroccan fields were at Port Lyautey, Marrakech, Casablanca, Meknes, Rabat, Kourigha, Nouasseur. The incoming Americans would find the flat, sparsely wooded terrain ideal for military aircraft bases, but would run into difficulties with the heat (120° in the summer shade) and the housing (very tight...