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Sagging Trucks. Between orgies of shopping, the King relaxed at El Morocco, Voisin, Sardi's, and the Barnum & Bailey circus at Madison Square Garden. Fearful of a bad press, Moroccan officials hurriedly advised newsmen that the five Cadillacs were for a governmental car pool back home, and the piles of cloth would be used to outfit a new government-supervised Hilton hotel in Rabat...
...good things must end. The King's private party of 25 set out for Idlewild Airport in a modest fleet of black limousines, followed by 45 Moroccan second-stringers in buses, followed in turn by three U.S. Army trucks sagging under personal luggage, crates, boxes and parcels. Hassan then boarded a special U.S. Air Force Boeing 707 for the flight home. Standing by to carry the rest of the party, and most of the purchases, were a chartered Pan Am Clipper and a Royal Moroccan Constellation...
Thirty-three-year-old King Hassan also brought with him crates of gifts; but left behind in Rabat was a small, shiny grey horse with the Moroccan colors of red and green plaited in its mane, which had been intended as a present for Caroline...
Even on the playing fields, Hassan's visit was a bust; his Moroccan army soccer team was only able to manage a tie with the Algerian squad. Next day, Hassan presented Ben Bella with a gift of a house trailer; all the guest got was a bill for staging the game-stadium rental, bus rental, and the cost of printing the programs. And when it came time to settle the hotel bill, Hassan's hosts pointedly looked the other way; by prior agreement, Hassan footed the bill for his entire no-man entourage...
...footnote appended to your story concerning the death of Abd el Krim [Feb. 15] indicates that President Theodore Roosevelt was responsible for the famed ultimatum to Raisuli, the notorious Moroccan bandit who had captured and was holding for ransom Ion Perdicaris, a naturalized American, and his stepson, an Englishman named Varley. As a matter of fact it was the brainchild of E. M. ("Eddie") Hood, one of the most revered members of the Washington staff of the Associated Press, Hood was assigned to the State Department many years and because of his knowledge and personality became the confidant of each...