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...other bases, at Sidi Slimane and Nouasseur are already "operational," though not yet equipped with the amenities of life. The remaining three are supposed to be finished by July...
Wise old Marshal Lyautey singled out Mohammed Ben Youssef from among his brothers and made him Sultan at the age of 17. Although Sultan Sidi Mohammed, now 40, still signs the country's dahirs (laws), he has no administrative or military power. A French official stands beside him at all meetings with foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became...
...Paris, President Vincent Aurlol stocked his pantry with almond milk and other dainties to welcome a visitor, thorny, willful Sidi Mohamed Ben Youssef, Sultan of Morocco. After a dervish whirl of partygoing, the Sultan doffed his white burnoose, slipped into hunting knickers for a shooting party at Marly-le-Roi where he bagged 76 pheasants, ten hares, two partridges...
...Married. Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehedi, 42, Caliph of Spanish Morocco; and Princess Lal-La Fatima Zohora Bent Muley, 22, British-educated, tradition-flouting (she never covers her face, Moorish fashion) daughter of the late Sultan of Morocco; each for the first time (his concubines do not count); in a three-week-long, $600,000 ceremony financed by the Spanish government (Franco gave the newlyweds a $200,000 home); in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco...
...Died. Sidi Mohamed al-Moncef, 67, mustachioed onetime Bey of Tunis (1942-43), who was deposed as a collaborationist by General Giraud after the North African landings; in Pau, France, where he had been under house arrest since...