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...next few days, one Moroccan notable after another hustled to the Hotel Henri IV to pay his respects. Ben Youssef summoned his old enemy Hadj Thami El Glauoi to Paris, and 80-year-old El Glaoui took ship to comply. The four-member throne council so painstakingly created by the French to preclude the return of Ben Youssef now declared that the council's sole purpose was to reinstall him on the throne, and offered their resignation in a body...
Descendants of the Prophet are numerous in North Africa, but few of them have the prophetic sense so inherently well developed as Hadj Thami El Glaoui, the 80-year-old Pasha of Marrakech. Foreseeing a few years ago that a tough French line might prevail in Morocco, El Glaoui brokered the shady business of selling out Morocco's legitimate Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. But when nationalist sentiment rallied around Ben Youssef and forced Premier Edgar Faure into making bargains with Moslem nationalists, wily old El Glaoui had different insight. "Must I become your government's enemy...
Pasha of Marrakech. His Excellency Hadj Thami El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, was born in the high Atlas about 80 years ago. His first profession was banditry, and he still rides round Morocco with a machine gun on his lap. Today, El Glaoui, still lean, dark and pantherish, is one of the world's richest men. He takes a tithe of the almond, saffron and olive harvests in his vast domain, owns huge blocks of stock in French-run mines and factories, gets a rebate on machinery and automobiles imported into his realm. As a sideline, he reputedly takes...
...most powerful influence among the Berbers is that of Si el Hadj Thami el Mezouari el Glaoui, the aged, cunning and ruthless Pasha of Marrakech. Once a bandit in the southern Moroccan desert, El Glaoui began helping the French in 1912, the first year of the protectorate; he sheltered some French citizens from possible slaughter by rebels. The late great Marshal Lyautey was so pleased that he put the onetime bandit in charge of his Moroccan troops. Eventually El Glaoui became the local ruler of a large territory, and acquired a considerable fortune from mine dividends, taxes and miscellaneous "gifts...