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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...
...editorial position. By urging negotiation with moderate Moroccan nationalists, the paper outraged French extremists, who beat up its staffers, smashed its offices, machine-gunned Publisher Jacques Le-maigre-Dubreuil to death (TIME, Aug. 8). Last fall the crusade triumphed: the French negotiated, just as Maroc-Presse urged, and restored Sultan ben Youssef. But the paper itself did not fare so well as its crusade. After the sultan's return, the suppressed Arab dailies reappeared, and native Moroccans went back to reading them. Maroc-Presse had already alienated most French readers and advertisers...
...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...