Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Hand. The French replaced Ben Youssef with a wizened old weakling, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. From that act, more than anything else, stemmed the Moroccan revolt...
...Party withdrew from elections, maintaining (correctly) that the seating was rigged in favor of the French colons. Extremists organized a bloody rising in the eastern mountains last year. Moderate Nationalists might have worked for compromise, but the French outlawed the entire party and declared that because "Algeria is France," revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. When Morocco's "Fateful Day" arrived a fortnight...
After the brief, bloody revolt of June 16, the jolted strongman herded four scapegoats out of his Cabinet. Jerónimo Remorino, Foreign Minister since 1951, was a logical Scapegoat No. 5. As Minister of Worship (the Foreign Minister wears two hats), he had official jurisdiction over church-state relations during Perón's bitter pre-revolt feud with the Roman Catholic Church. But Perón deferred action on Remorino's tendered resignation for a while, possibly to keep the herding from looking like a stampede. Last week, with Remorino disabled by a liver ailment...
Fateful Date. The seeds of revolt had been sown over 43 years of French insensitivity to the political and spiritual longings of North Africa's Arab peoples. France gave North Africa roads, hospitals and the works of Voltaire, but not the political liberty it demanded. The spark that ignited the violence was struck one day last week. It came on La Date Fatidique (literally, the fateful date...
Burning Alive. All that night there was sporadic firing in Casablanca's slums. Next morning there was open revolt. A general strike paralyzed Morocco's principal cities; patriots broke out red Moroccan flags atop mosques and minarets. Out of Casablanca's teeming slums poured shrieking women and boys, some not ten years old. They waved pictures of Mohammed ben Youssef and shouted for his return. Hours before, similar gangs had caught an Arab who was suspected of collaborating with the French. They stripped and doused him with gasoline, then burned him alive. The French brought...