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Descendants of the Prophet are numerous in North Africa, but few of them have the prophetic sense so inherently well developed as Hadj Thami El Glaoui, the 80-year-old Pasha of Marrakech. Foreseeing a few years ago that a tough French line might prevail in Morocco, El Glaoui brokered the shady business of selling out Morocco's legitimate Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. But when nationalist sentiment rallied around Ben Youssef and forced Premier Edgar Faure into making bargains with Moslem nationalists, wily old El Glaoui had different insight. "Must I become your government's enemy...
...That phase may now be ending. I believe that all four of the heads of government who were at Geneva wanted that result and that each contributed to it. In consequence, a new spirit does indeed prevail, with greater flexibility and less brittleness in international relations...
...Enquiry without faith may prevail for a little, but in the end the unbalance, the list to one side, will take it off course and cause it to lose not only direction but any sense of direction, Horton said...
...concept of constitution as fundamental law enforces upon an often impatient majority a long cooling off period, during which the afforded opportunity for discussion and debate tends to ensure that the wisest counsels will prevail, and that the result will represent the reason of our people. The function of the judiciary was considered important at the birth of our constitutional era; it is no less important today...
...Supreme Court is "one of the greatest intellectual and moral leaders of the nation. . . . The present efforts of the Supreme Court to make actual equality prevail among all American citizens are a great inspiration and a great comfort for all people of ideals...