Word: moulay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sidi Lamine was not the only distinguished African visitor to Paris in recent weeks. He had been preceded by Sidi Mohamed Ben Youseff, Sultan of Morocco, who had received the Croix de la Liberation (his son Prince Moulay Hassan was also decorated-see cut) and was shown a hydroelectric dam in the Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria...
With sherifian majesty, Sidi Mohamed Ben Moulay Youssef Ben Moulay El-Hassan-Scion of the Prophet, Commander of the Faithful, Sultan of Morocco-singed the mustache of the Dictator of Spain. From the international court in Tangier he dismissed Judge Fernando Malmussi, a Fascist loyd to Benito Mussolini. With equal majesty, he appointed an anti-Fascist Italian to sit with a Briton, a Frenchman and a Spaniard-thereby giving the court an anti-Fascist majority. The new judge was Giovanni Apostoli, recommended by the Bonomi Government with the approval of London and Paris...
...Moroccan puppet, the Nazis were busy buttering up 63-year-old Moulay Abdelazis, ousted by the French in 1908, with promises of the Sultanate of a United Morocco that would include Tangier as well as French and Spanish Morocco. Germans in Tangier feted his nephew, Moulay-El-Hassan, the Caliph of Spanish Morocco. Backing up the Nazis was the potent ultra-nationalist Watan party, who want a unified Morocco...