Word: moulay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was Premier Edgar Faure's desperate attempt to provide a policy for rebellious Morocco. Two weeks ago, his Cabinet had announced agreement on a program of which the chief features were removal of Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa and his replacement by a three-man regency council. President Coty himself sent a letter to the Resident General, Lieut. General Pierre Boyer de Latour, for delivery to Arafa; a French destroyer stood by to carry the aged Sultan to sanctuary in Tangier...
Back from Madagascar. General C-troux's mission was to win Ben Youssef's approval for Premier Edgar Faure's ingenious plan to settle the Moroccan crisis (TIME, Sept. 5). The French propose to depose the present puppet Sultan. Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, but not to restore Ben Youssef, who would, however, be able to leave Madagascar and live more luxuriously in France...
Over to Tangier. Convincing the other Sultan, Moulay Arafa, was a task for another French general, Pierre Georges Boyer de Latour, the new French Resident-General in Morocco. Last week De Latour called on the old man in his dazzling white palace at Rabat and delicately indicated that the time had come to leave...
From the French colons and their ally in intransigeance, aged El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakech, came exactly the opposite advice: Stay where you are. Moulay Arafa uncomfortably announced that only Allah could recall him, but at the same time looked longingly at the sumptuous palace waiting for him across the border in Tangier...
Actually, Ben Moulay Arafa, who does not like being Sultan and holes up in small palace quarters once occupied by one of Ben Youssef's concubines, is stalling for time, and hoping for a fat French pension in return for abdicating (his advisers are reportedly asking 3 billion francs-almost $8,500,000). General de Latour marched out of his interview with Moulay Arafa, conspicuously and deliberately omitting the traditional Moroccan wish that his reign would be long and prosperous...