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Morocco. Suave, white-robed Sultan Sidi Mohamed of Morocco last month shattered precedent by making a trip to the internationalized Moroccan city of Tangier. There he cut from his prepared speech a friendly reference to the French Union, lauded the Arab League. Said he: "Morocco is . . . solidly linked with the Arab countries of the Orient...
...Sidi nale nale nale
...Soir, Paris Communist paper, was red with anger. In a luxurious villa at Pau in sight of the snow-bright Pyrenees, Sidi Mohamed Al Mounsaf was "lazily stretched out on a divan, his hands folded across his stomach." The "notorious collaborator"-exiled by the Allies for winking his pouchy eyes at the Axis (TIME, May 24, 1943)-enjoyed full liberty, was fawned upon by a score of wives, a large retinue including a court jester. To cap it all, he was campaigning for reinstatement as Bey of Tunis...
...thunder trailed off into a tinkling minuet. The dust of Sidi Barrani, Stalingrad and Aachen had dissolved; and there, as in a dream, were the clipped green lawns of Sanssouci. There was a second palace, a big and ugly one, and a pretty little lake. And there were the Big Three, enjoying a summer evening of music...
...Sidi Lamine was not the only distinguished African visitor to Paris in recent weeks. He had been preceded by Sidi Mohamed Ben Youseff, Sultan of Morocco, who had received the Croix de la Liberation (his son Prince Moulay Hassan was also decorated-see cut) and was shown a hydroelectric dam in the Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria...