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...their portion of the Arab sultanate of Morocco, the French were having so much trouble with the Arabs that they found it necessary to depose popular Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and to replace him with the ineffective Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. The switch aroused widespread resentment in Spanish Morocco, a resentment which Franco's Fascist radio was not averse to exploiting...
...Help You." Operation Fellagha began early last week in the Beylical Palace in Carthage, where 44 Tunisians and 22 French officers stood before His Highness Sidi Mohammed el Amin, the mustachioed monarch of Tunis, and explained their plan. Twenty-two teams, composed of two Tunisians and one Frenchman, would go into the hills to offer amnesty to the fellaghas. Each jellagha who accepted would get a formal certificate of absolution, bearing his thumbprint to prevent chicanery; a stub, also with thumbprint, would be retained by the government. "Go, my dear children," blessed the Bey of Tunis. "May God help...
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...
...General in Rabat, the political capital, they sent this solemn message: "A sacred religious obligation is imposed upon us to counsel the right, to reprove the wrong . . . We judge it opportune to demand in the name of Islam and of the Moroccan people the return of their legal sovereign, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, to the throne." Then, in secrecy, the priests reached another decision. Suicide is a deadly sin in Moslem theology, but the conclave decided to sanction the use of cyanide capsules by any Moroccan patriot who might be captured by the French...
...movement. His mortal enemy was cunning old El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakech and leader of Morocco's 3,000,000 Berbers, a mountain people who hate the Arabs. The French backed El Glaoui, and replaced Ben Youssef with a stooge loyal to both France and the Berbers: Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, who is aged, weak and unpopular...