Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, though not a Frenchman had been touched, 42 Moroccans were dead. The worried Sultan sent three high officials to Marrakech to appeal for order. "Nobody," he said, "has the right to administer justice for himself...
Before he died of cancer last winter El Glaoui, the wily and tyrannical Pasha of Marrakech, had groveled before the new Morocco, represented by Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (TIME, Nov. 21), and had been forgiven. But a good many of the new Moroccans bitterly remembered the bloody clubs with which El Glaoui's police, protected by the French, had for years enforced an arbitrary justice in their city. They remembered the huge levies collected at gunpoint to swell his coffers. Feeling that the returned Sultan had let the old pasha off far too easily, they formed an underground...
...time the Sultan's barnstorming won friends and depleted Communist ranks. But the Sultan knew he could not keep up this pace forever. He announced his next step: a personal amnesty to all who confessed. At each village, when not dancing or feasting, the Sultan retired to a secluded hut, where villagers arrived singly and in small groups to confess their errors and offer information about the local Communists. More than 300 Communists surrendered to the Sultan personally, and he got so much information about others that the security police rounded them up in droves...
...Last Roundup. Several weeks ago the Sultan started his final tour-through the Temerloh district in central Pahang, where Communists were still active. Dressed in Bermuda shorts and bright sports shirt, he was greeted by idolizing and contrite villagers. They cried: "Ampun, Tuanku, beribu beribu ampun" (Forgiveness, Your Highness, thousand thousand forgiveness). In each village he warned that his amnesty would end with this tour and urged the villagers to purge themselves of Communists...
Last week in Temerloh the Sultan celebrated the collapse of one of Communism's last strongholds in Pahang. Only a few scattered terrorists remain in all Pahang. "His dancing and singing," said an admiring British official, "has been more effective than a couple of regiments...