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With French backing, El Glaoui began peddling a petition demanding Sultan Ben Youssef's dethronement. On Aug. 20, 1953, El Glaoui's horsemen came racing down the hills and surrounded the capital of Rabat. Ben Youssef must go, said El Glaoui. The colons loudly agreed. The French government suspected the strength of this movement, but was too weak-willed to resist it. Approving the order for Ben Youssef's removal, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault solaced himself with the comment: "It was either the Cross or the Crescent...
...shock and alarm. Premier Edgar Faure, who had appointed an able man to bring peace to Morocco and had then hung back from letting that man put through the reforms he demanded, condemned "this terror and savageness," and grimly warned of French retribution. In the Moroccan capital of Rabat, his appointee, French Resident General Gilbert Grandval, was shocked at the bloody collapse of his efforts to win a compromise...
Late that night, Lemaigre left the luxurious Casablanca apartment house where he lives, intending to drive out to the airport for a night flight to Rabat on business. As he and a friend were about to enter their car, two black Citroëns crossed the deserted plaza and slowed down. There were two bursts of machine-gun fire. Lemaigre, with 13 slugs in his body, dropped to the pavement, mortally wounded. The 9-mm. bullets were of the type used by Casablanca police...
With pipes and drums, 5,000 Berber tribesmen, camped below the palace in the Moroccan city of Rabat, greeted the appearance of a wizened old man in a white gown whom the French a year ago made Sultan of Morocco. Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa was nervous. The last two times he had shown his face in public, he had narrowly escaped assassination by fanatic nationalist supporters of his exiled predecessor, Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef...
Twice, Arab extremists have tried to assassinate Ben Arafa; he no longer stirs from his palace in Rabat. The French, in turn, have outlawed the moderate Istiqlal, jailed 5,000 of its members (whom they could catch more easily than the terrorists), and have come close to turning Morocco into a colonial police state. From these events came the violence that shook Morocco last week...