Word: sidi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Sirs: Being unable to find even a trace of glamorous Gertrude [Dirty Gertie of Bizerte] in Bizerte, we extended our quest across the coast of North Africa from the tip of Cape Bon to Casablanca. Our ceaseless searching was finally rewarded at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, headquarters of the French Foreign Legion (in which Ronald Colman fought so many ferocious battles), when we came upon an alluring Arabian astride a motorcycle, who claimed to be the identical girl about whom the celebrated song was written...
Just a list of the cities we have visited: Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Oran, Meknes, Oudjda, Algiers, Fez. We have spent a night in a Sultan's palace at Fez, we have visited the headquarters of the Foreign Legion in Sidi-bel Abbes . . . we have seen the Casbah in Algiers. . . . Three gals, two others and myself, drove all across North Africa from Casablanca to Bizerte. From Bizerte we flew over to Sicily. Bizerte was an appalling sight. ... At night ... the moon shines down on empty shells of white buildings with black windows...
Before week's end, the Bey got fired. General Henri Giraud, Civil and Military Chief of French North Africa, ruled that Sidi Mounsaf had compromised Tunisia's "external and internal security" by truckling with the Axis. To the beylical throne, in accordance with dynastic tradition, went Sidi Mounsaf's oldest living male relative, unpolitical Sidi Al Amin...
...Prestige. One of Sidi Mounsaf's fellow puppets, bewhiskered, penny-pinching Admiral Jean Estéva, made good his escape from Tunisia. In Estéva's post as Tunisia's Resident General. General Giraud plunked his own man: tall, jolly General Alphonse Juin, French field commander in Tunisia, to administer the protectorate until the permanent Resident General, impetuous, gallant General Charles Mast, recovers from injuries received in a recent automobile accident...