Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four delegates flew to Nice-but the next thing France knew, they had flown via Switzerland to Egypt to confer with France's archenemy. President Nasser. Last week, having dropped out of sight for 2% months, they arrived in Morocco to swear allegiance to Mohammed...
...King of Morocco got a few pointers last week on how to be a king from a man who very much wants to be one. As Mohammed V explained his plans for spreading more democracy throughout his land, his distinguished guest. Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis-Philippe de Bourbon-Orleans, Comte de Paris, great-great-grandson of King Louis-Philippe and pretender to the throne of France, somewhat nervously interrupted...
...delegates from French Africa to attend a conference in Paris last January, none were more lavishly treated than the four gentlemen from Mauritania-the ore-rich land that stretches, twice the size of France, from south of Morocco to black Senegal. Resplendent in blue turbans, the four Moors were feted and flattered for four days straight. They seemed to have no quarrel with Mauritania's status as a semi-autonomous political entity inside French West Africa. And since they included two council ministers, a tribal sheik and the powerful Mohammed Ould Fall Oumer, Emir of Trarza and absolute ruler...
...Emir of Trarza symbolically placed his title "at the Sultan's feet." "Our ancestors," said the Mauritanians, "recognized the authority of the Great Sultan Moulay Ismail during the reign of the French King Louis XIV." Replied King Mohammed: "We are the sons of the same country, our beloved Morocco...
...dominated by Negroes. Mauritania's pro-French Premier Si Moktar Ould Daddah promptly branded them "traitors," begged France not to judge his country by the doings of a few "wild men." Nevertheless, as both Rabat and Paris realized, the four defecting delegates had given Mohammed's Greater Morocco campaign its biggest propaganda boost yet. Morocco, which gained its independence two years ago without ever having its southern borders officially defined, claims a sizable part of the western Sahara, the remaining North African possessions of Spain, and all of the land and unexploited resources of Mauritania...