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Morocco's Sultan ben Youssef, Mohammed V, only 31 months ago exiled by the French to remote Madagascar, was being courted like a king. At Rabat airport last week, as he stepped aboard an Iberia Super-Constellation for a visit to Spain, a band played the Marseillaise, and French High Commissioner Andre Louis Dubois was at his side to remind him that Morocco owed its new "independence within interdependence" to France. Hours later in Madrid, Dictator Franco and a phalanx of bemedaled Falangists roared an ovation to show that they also had something to give the Sultan...
Singapore, the stepping-off stone for trips to Indonesia, South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand. In Singapore itself, visitors can wander through fragrant, junglelike botanical gardens, try out the famed Chinese restaurants, take a side trip across the causeway to the Malayan mainland for a view of the Sultan of Johore's famed palace. Singapore's best hotel is the renowned Raffles, where rates average $20 per day for a double room v. $15 elsewhere. Best shopping bets: jade, Chinese scrolls and painted silk. Average tourist expense in Southeast Asia: $30 to $50 per day per person...
...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...
...moderates, whom they seem to resent as bitterly as they do the French. Morocco's Cairo leader is Allal el Fassi, chief of the Istiqlal Party, who was exiled by the French 18 years ago. Last week, despite France's belated granting of independence to Sultan ben Youssef, rebels in Morocco's Rif Mountains fought on, reportedly at El Fassi's command, while El Fassi himself flew to Madrid to discuss Arab claims on Spanish Morocco...
France's two other North African territories moved nearer independence-and farther from France. For two weeks Foreign Minister Christian Pineau's negotiators had been stubbornly insisting that France could never agree to recognize Morocco's independence until Sultan Ben Youssef had also accepted terms of "interdependence." Last week France gave in. It signed a declaration recognizing Morocco's sovereignty and granting Morocco the right to maintain an army and conduct its own diplomacy. The terms of interdependence are still to be written...