Word: sidi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he died of cancer last winter El Glaoui, the wily and tyrannical Pasha of Marrakech, had groveled before the new Morocco, represented by Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (TIME, Nov. 21), and had been forgiven. But a good many of the new Moroccans bitterly remembered the bloody clubs with which El Glaoui's police, protected by the French, had for years enforced an arbitrary justice in their city. They remembered the huge levies collected at gunpoint to swell his coffers. Feeling that the returned Sultan had let the old pasha off far too easily, they formed an underground...
...without baptizing more than three or four converts in his entire life. In 1933 five students in the seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux decided to found an order based on his austere rule of "extreme poverty in everything." In Algeria, on the edge of the Sahara at El-Abiodh-Sidi-Cheikh, the first novitiate of the Petits Freres de Jesus was opened. Six years later an order of women, the Petites Soeurs de Jesus, was founded...
...Morocco Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef agreed at last to go to Spain to discuss freedom for Spanish Morocco. Franco is reportedly ready to hand over the Spanish zone in exchange for Spain's continued right to maintain its military bases there. Spanish government propagandists, busily preparing public opinion for the loss of its protectorate in North Africa, were still trying to pose as the friend of the Arabs. "We went there to fulfill a protective mission," said one release, "not solicited by us, but placed upon us by international agreements...
...morning last week, squads of workers swept the apron of Paris' Orly Field. They swept to such purpose that when his Super-Constellation taxied up that afternoon, His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco could step out in white pointed slippers on dry ground. Nothing was too good for Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, the pro-Nationalist monarch who, a prisoner of the French in Madagascar exile seven months ago, now returned in triumph to open negotiations for Moroccan independence. Welcomed at the airport by Premier Guy Mollet and a platoon of ministers, the Sultan was borne off with his wives...
Women by the hundreds steamed into Rabat to pay their respects to Morocco's newly re-enthroned Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. Some were old, some young; some fat, some thin, some rich and some poor, but all had one thing in common: their faces were unveiled...