Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French opposition. Urged to flee, the Sultan of Morocco said then: "The Americans are my friends. I will greet them here." General George S. Patton gave the Sultan a jeep with chrome fenders which is still the pride of his 58-car garage. Two months later, the Sultan met Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some...
Wise old Marshal Lyautey singled out Mohammed Ben Youssef from among his brothers and made him Sultan at the age of 17. Although Sultan Sidi Mohammed, now 40, still signs the country's dahirs (laws), he has no administrative or military power. A French official stands beside him at all meetings with foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became...
Others include Alfred Kazin, author and critic from New York; David McClel and, professor of Psychology at Wesleyan; Jean T. McKelvey, professor of Labor Relations at Cornell; Paul E. Sultan, professor of Economics at the University of Buffalo; and Julius S. Bixler, President of Colby College, who will teach American philosophy...
Suleiman the Magnificent, by Harold Lamb. A highly readable reconstruction of the great sultan's life; by a popular historian who thinks the West has usually rated Suleiman too low (TIME, March...
Suleiman the Magnificent, by Harold Lamb. A highly readable reconstruction of the great sultan's life; by a popular historian who thinks the West has usually rated Suleiman too low (TIME, March...