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...share entirely the joy of the Moroccan people at the announcement of His Majesty Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef's return to France. I make my own the wish of the Moroccan people, which is that of the prompt restoration of Ben Youssef and his return to the throne. Only his return can bring unity and calm to the spirits and to the hearts of the Moroccans...
Three days after El Glaoui's about-face, the diehard Union for the French Presence, representing powerful French colons in Morocco, also backed down from its previous stand, issued a meekly worded statement saying that the question of the throne was "for Moroccans only." Meanwhile, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, the man the French had chosen to be Sultan, then exiled, renounced all rights to the throne in favor of Ben Youssef...
...news. "They had tea together again," intoned the other. But back of the little jokes and the large admonitions, a disquieting uncertainty hung over the nation. Nobody in Britain expected that the Princess' romance with her divorced com moner would end in the collapse of the British throne, or believed that it could cause more than a passing disruption in Anthony Eden's government. What it could do, and had perhaps already done, was to damage a faith already weakened by repeated blows...
When Edward chose the course of abdication, six-year-old Margaret herself asked with eyes wide, "Are they going to chop off his head?" It was not necessary. In choosing to give up his throne, Edward made himself, in British eyes, something less than a man without a head. The people of Britain let him go, anointed his conscientious younger brother George (Margaret's father) in his place and tried to forget him. A new royal family was established in Buckingham Palace, and the most beguiling member of it was an impish little Princess known as Margaret Rose...
...this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed by Victorian standards. Margaret is a Princess, in a predominantly socialist-minded state, who has little chance of ascending the throne...