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Continuing Dialogue. Under the 1912 Treaty of Fez, Morocco is a French protectorate. French administrators rule through local pashas and caids. This system was founded on Moslem feudal tradition by France's famous Marshal Louis Lyautey. It works, but it makes no provision for ultimate Arab self-government...
...Wise old Marshal Lyautey singled out Mohammed Ben Youssef from among his brothers and made him Sultan at the age of 17. Although Sultan Sidi Mohammed, now 40, still signs the country's dahirs (laws), he has no administrative or military power. A French official stands beside him at all meetings with foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became...
...Marshal Arthur W. Tedder, chancellor of the University of Cambridge, will visit Harvard today. Lord Tedder, who was Deputy Supreme Allied Committee under General Eisenhower from 1943 to 1945, will dine at 1 p.m. in the Society of Fellows room in Eliot House...
...retired from the Army in 1937; but he had a showy new title: Field Marshal of the new Philippine Army. In 1941, six months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt restored MacArthur to duty as a full general with the title of Commander of U.S. Forces in the Far East. By V-J day, when he took the Japanese surrender aboard U.S.S. Missouri, Douglas MacArthur had made himself one of the most famous commanders in U.S. history. He became Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) in Japan 5½ years ago, Commander of U N Forces in Korea within...
...Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, most important political prisoner in Titoist Yugoslavia, stood up to receive a visitor, A.P. Correspondent Alex Singleton. After 4½ years of a 16-year sentence imposed on him for alleged wartime collaboration with the Nazis, the prelate looked fit and unbroken. The newsman explained that Marshal Tito's regime had agreed to an uncensored interview and photographs. What message did the spiritual leader of Yugoslavia's 7,000,000 Roman Catholics have for the outside world...