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Bloodshed was one result. After a generation of unfulfilled French promises to move towards home rule, Morocco crackled with sporadic murders and riots. Its 5,000,000 Arabs (60% of the total population) demanded that the French restore their 43-year-old Sultan, Ben Youssef, Commander of the Faithful, whom the French deposed a year ago this month and exiled to Madagascar with a retinue of concubines. The rebels were led by an outlawed party of once moderate nationalists : the underground Istiqlal...
Colonial Police State. Sultan Ben Youssef's crime had been to lend his royal support to the nationalist 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...
Morocco's new wave of violence began one morning at 9:30. A crowd of Arabs gathered in the market place at Fez, bearing crudely painted portraits of the deposed Sultan and shouting: "Long live Ben Youssef!" When the police used tear gas, the Arabs showered them with stones. The police opened fire: five Moroccans fell dead and 25 were wounded...
Lounging in an easy chair in the library of his Surrey estate, Britain's fireball sultan of the press, Lord Beaverbrook, who recently summed up his homilies of success in a book called Don't Trust to Luck, trotted out some more reminiscences on BBC's TV in a chat observing his 75th birthday. The Beaver paid tribute to such old departed friends as Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells, reaffirmed his 19th century devotion to the 19th century-brand empire. With a sentimental tremor in his voice, he closed: "This may be my last appearance...
...When Sultan Ben Youssef was banished, Paris dawdled with the notion of sending another and milder Resident General to replace Guillaume, who was growing wary of the sticky political situation...