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Peacetime Ramadan in Egypt had children, rich and poor, wandering from house to house swinging red and green lanterns from poles, singing for candy and food. "Joy, oh joy," they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...
Consults the Sultan...
...Well, Shad," I said. (His name is Sultan Shad Hirant but I call him Shad for shirt) "What have you got on the ball today? Why so sad? You look as if somebody had stolen your last wife...
...Sultan went into a trance, staring intently into the crystal ball. He was silent for a long time. I thought for a minute that he had gone to sleep, but he finally began to speak...
...after four rip-roaring days and many blunders (not necessarily his own). At the end he strode into the headquarters of Admiral Michelier with a pair of pearl-handled .45-caliber pistols strapped to his legs and a tommy gun under one arm. So impressed was the Sultan of Morocco that he presented Patton with the special order of Ouissam Alaouite, with the citation: "Les Lions dans leurs tanières tremblent en le voyant approcher" (The lions in their dens tremble at his approach). According to unofficial reports, he also impressed Franco's commanders in Spanish Morocco, doing...