Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the ex-Sultan of Morocco was en route to exile in Tahiti with his wives and a streamlined harem, it was open season on his past in the French press. The government had deposed him for his anti-French activities and his flirtation with Moroccan nationalists. First came stories showing how he had played with the Nazis during the war. Last week France-Soir, the largest daily in Paris (circ. 955,600) broke an exposé of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef as a "bloody, sadistic Bluebeard." Among France-Soir's sensational charges...
...Seven palace servants, accused of seducing five of the Sultan's concubines, were once haled before the wrathful monarch. "I wish to see your blood spilled," said the Sultan. "You shall die, but I give you your choice between a revolver bullet and the lions." Then sacks were pulled over the prisoners' heads and they were told to pray. At that moment, a few pious and powerful members of the Sultan's entourage implored him to spare the wretches' lives; one even predicted that Allah would be angry if the death penalty were carried out. After...
Back to GHQ. Last week, when students at Horns began rioting on schedule, and old Sultan Pasha el Atrash called in his subchieftains to plot trouble, Shishekly abandoned his gamble. He left the presidential palace, went to his desk at army GHQ and decreed martial...
Quickly, troops sealed off the Sultan's house, placed the Sultan under house arrest, then battled off enraged Druze tribesmen as tanks moved into the area. Police jailed the twelve top leaders of the Popular Bloc and the heads of the Bar Association. Said Shishekly over Radio Damascus: "These leaders exploited the liberal principles proclaimed by my new regime . . . Naive citizens in some districts went to the extreme of actually clashing with the armed security forces. This necessitated quick measures...
Polyglot See. The principal entrance to the grounds of Istanbul's patriarchate is a door that is never opened. Before it, in 1822 the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregorius V was hanged on the orders of Sultan Mahmoud II, who accused him of conspiring with the Greeks in a revolt against the Ottoman Empire. For generations, the Closed Door was an Orthodox shrine to the ancient enmity. Under Athenagoras, the door is still closed, but now, as an Orthodox official recently explained: "The Closed Door is a memorial for a dead Patriarch, not a reminder of the way he died...