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Paris was not for long content with such enlightened methods. Frenchmen poured into Morocco, grabbed up the best farmland with the help of laws dedicated to "extending the French presence," and allowing French farmers to pay 20% less tax than a Moroccan. They displaced the Moroccan administrators. They dug mines, made Morocco the world's second in production of phosphate, fifth in manganese, seventh in lead. They built roads and railroads, power plants and dams, constructed ports (Casablanca handles more tonnage than Marseille). They built 133 hospitals, at one time boasted they were opening a school...
Slow-Won Wisdom. This combination of Islam and West, of Moroccan nationalist with French boules companions, is characteristic of this thin-voiced, soft-eyed man who sits hunched on the edge of his throne almost as if overwhelmed by its high-arching brocaded back. In the turbulent world of emergent Moslem nationalism, Mohammed. 47, is an all but unique example of instinctive moderation surrounded by intemperate ambition. His is a skillful balancing act between tradition, which can become stagnation, and progress, which can become confusion...
...first governor of its new protectorate, the French sent the revered Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey to Morocco. Lyautey's policy: "Do not offend a single tradition or change a single habit." He ordered French towns built alongside but separate from the Moroccan towns, put all mosques off limits to unbelievers, and met the Moroccans as friendly equals. When he sent the Foreign Legion to subdue rebellious chiefs, he warned his commanders: "Always show your force in order to avoid using it. Never enter a village without thinking that the market must be opened the next...
...result, 875 Moroccan physicians are French, only 19 Moslem; there are 350 French lawyers, only 27 Moslem. The French lived in Morocco as in a good hotel, and luxurious apartment houses overlooked squalid bidonvilles where Arab laborers crowded into shacks roofed over with flattened gasoline tins...
...Algerian nation cannot accept any solution that does not imply as a primary condition the recognition of its independence." Said Bourguiba: "We just have to end this vicious circle." Added a Moroccan minister: "It's fine to know how to throw a grenade, but you have to know where and when to throw it." With the aid of the Moroccans, whip-sharp Premier Bourguiba began working on a formula of self-determination by which the Algerians might compromise profitably with France, as Morocco and Tunisia had done. Tunis had settled for the formula of "internal autonomy"; for Moroccans...