Word: sultanism
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...nothing about a growing food shortage in the islands, and he went back to his old habits of taking long trips to visit Ceylon, or to see his dentist twice a year (in London). On top of that, the President was at least as cruel and despotic as any sultan, shouting orders, demanding cringing obedience from even his highest aides, punishing minor offenses with as many as 100 lashes, and meting out to more serious offenders that most ancient and unrepublican of sentences-the lopping off of both hands...
...still being kept under guard on Doonidu "for safekeeping"; the main islands apparently were thick with people who wanted to chop Amin Didi's hands off, preferably at the neck. Also, added Ibrahim Mohammed, the people were beginning to long for the quiet old days of the sultanate. Ibrahim Mohammed thought that he himself might be a logical choice for next Sultan. But there remained Amin Didi; he was not only the President and Prime Minister, but also next in line for Sultan, should the republic be abolished...
Troubled Morocco is a hybrid North African protectorate where France nominally holds overall authority through a puppet sultan but in turn sublets the sultan's power to Spain and a caliph in a ninth of the country. In Tetuan, tribesmen gathered last week in a vast assembly, ostensibly to "express gratitude" to their Spanish overseers. Instead, apparently with the foreknowledge of the Spaniards, the day was turned into a hate-France holiday...
...broiling hot night last August, the French overlords of Morocco deposed and exiled Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, and in his place installed sad-eyed, compliant Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. By doing so, the French hoped to discourage any respectable support for Arab nationalism, and to gain a little peace. Since then, Morocco has seen not peace but more bloodshed. Items: a house painter tried to assassinate the new Sultan; terrorists bombed the Algiers-Casablanca Express; a Moroccan member of the French secret police was shot dead; on Christmas Eve in Casablanca's central market, a home...
Last week it was all over. The matchmakers bowed out. Alia was back in her political science classes at the American University of Beirut. Sultan tended to his job of governing Riyadh and seemed a good bet to become Saudi Arabia's Minister of Agriculture. Both heaved great sighs of relief. Their families were disappointed, but also aware that times have changed in the Middle East...