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...chief problem, the old man knew, was his own deposition. His supporters, many of them French, wanted him to stay, if only as a proof that Imperial France alone is the kingmaker in Morocco. The deposition of the Sultan is "unconstitutional" wrote El Glaoui, the old Pasha of Marrakech, who himself engineered the deposition of Ben Youssef...
...Pasha of Marrakech. His Excellency Hadj Thami El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, was born in the high Atlas about 80 years ago. His first profession was banditry, and he still rides round Morocco with a machine gun on his lap. Today, El Glaoui, still lean, dark and pantherish, is one of the world's richest men. He takes a tithe of the almond, saffron and olive harvests in his vast domain, owns huge blocks of stock in French-run mines and factories, gets a rebate on machinery and automobiles imported into his realm. As a sideline, he reputedly takes...
...Date Fatidique, glittering Casablanca was closed down like a morgue. The wealthy fled to Tangier, the poor boarded up their doors. In the medinas from Fez to Marrakech, white-kepied Legionnaires set up machine guns and searchlights, covering the street intersections. Nationalist agitators sawed down telephone poles and tore down the street lamps, to ensure darkness for their escape...
Later, when the Pasha himself returned from calling on Grandval, a crowd of angry youths blocked his car's passage. Octogenarian El Glaoui himself seized a submachine gun and stood foursquare on the cobblestones until the mob dispersed. Before the sun went down on Marrakech that night, Morocco was the poorer by 10 more dead and 27 wounded...
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...