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...second anniversary of the dethronement of Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef as head of some 9,000,000 Moroccan Moslems. On Aug. 20, 1953, the French bundled Ben Youssef aboard a DC-3 and exiled him, ostensibly to "save" him from his own people, actually because he supported their demand for more political freedom. So flimsy a pretext was an insult to North Africa's faithful. Morocco's urgent nationalists flatly refused to accept the weak and wizened old man whom Paris foisted on them in Ben Youssef's place. Ben Youssef, never very popular as Sultan...
...Moslems throughout North Africa, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, the French puppet Sultan, is a false prophet and usurper. Last month the Moroccans served notice that La Date Fatidique would be a day of prayer and demonstrations for Moulay Arafa's removal and Ben Youssef's return. Terrorist tracts, bearing the black crescent sign of the Arab underground, quickly made plain what this might mean. In the sacred name of Allah, the tracts urged all Moroccans to "avenge our dead heroes cut down by Imperialist French bullets...
...whole world was at war, but there in the headlines was The Voice, The Verce, The Larynx, The Tonsil, The Bony Baritone, The Sultan of Swoon-"none other" (as Jimmy Durante expressed it) "than Moonlight Sinatra." Radio comics gnawed ecstatically on the famous skinnybones. "The pipestem Caruso." "He has to pass a place twice before he casts a shadow." "I know the food here is lousy," cracked Phil Silvers as Frank walked onstage in their Army show, "but this is ridiculous...
...been promised. It is now accomplished." But what the Deputies were waiting to hear was what Faure proposed to do about seething Algeria and Morocco. Each was well aware that two years ago, Premier Joseph Laniel had only waited until they left town before deposing Morocco's Sultan Ben Yussef and installing Sultan Ben Moulay Arafa in his stead. Now the diehards in the Assembly suspected Edgar Faure of only waiting for the same chance to depose weak-willed Sultan Ben Moulay Arafa in his turn...
...elected body, the Alliance Party will have a far more powerful voice than that of the British appointees. President of the Alliance Party and certain to be chief minister in the new government is Prince Abdul Rahman, known as the Tengku (meaning prince in Malayan), a son of the Sultan of Kedah, a dynasty founded centuries ago by a Mongol chieftain who was shipwrecked on the Malayan coast. Tengku's mother was the daughter of a Siamese chieftain...