Word: sidi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the French deposed and exiled fractious Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef last year, they have had no trouble with the complaisant new Sultan, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. But they have had plenty of trouble with Istiqlal nationalists, who scorn the new Sultan as a stooge. Since last August, the poorly organized nationalists, armed with smuggled hand grenades, homemade bombs, pistols and machine guns, have killed 101 persons, wounded 189 more. France's reverses in Indo-China have given the insurgents new heart. Recently, they circulated clandestine letters saying that "Casablanca will be another Dienbienphu." Help from...
...French press. The government had deposed him for his anti-French activities and his flirtation with Moroccan nationalists. First came stories showing how he had played with the Nazis during the war. Last week France-Soir, the largest daily in Paris (circ. 955,600) broke an exposé of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef as a "bloody, sadistic Bluebeard." Among France-Soir's sensational charges...
French Anger. Both the Moroccans and the Spanish are mad at France for summarily expelling Sultan Sidi Moham med ben Youssef in favor of his more malleable relative. Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa (TiME, Aug. 31). This action has left some devout Moroccans closing their Friday prayers with blessings on the new Sultan, others petitioning God in favor of the old, and the puzzled ambiguously praying for "Sidi Mohammed" and leaving the choice to Allah...
...Spanish side, the Sultan's representative is pliant, unventuresome, 43-year-old Caliph Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehed. cousin of the exiled sultan and nephew of the new. The Spanish have persuaded the caliph to condemn the French change of rulers, but he is also believed to have secretly telephoned his congratulations to the new. French-backed Sultan...
...broiling hot night last August, the French overlords of Morocco deposed and exiled Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, and in his place installed sad-eyed, compliant Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. By doing so, the French hoped to discourage any respectable support for Arab nationalism, and to gain a little peace. Since then, Morocco has seen not peace but more bloodshed. Items: a house painter tried to assassinate the new Sultan; terrorists bombed the Algiers-Casablanca Express; a Moroccan member of the French secret police was shot dead; on Christmas Eve in Casablanca's central market, a home...