Word: arabization
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...booming. Huge hydroelectric projects are transforming the barren land into a fertile country, new industries are drawing thousands of people into the cities. But a political conflict threatens to tear Morocco apart. The French, who govern with a firm colonial hand, offer administrative reforms. The Arab population demands full independence. The Arabs look to the U.S. American interest in Morocco as an Atlantic bastion (TIME, Feb. 19) has raised Arab hopes...
...Arab faith in America goes back to November 1942, when the U.S. Army went ashore at Casablanca against Vichy
Continuing Dialogue. Under the 1912 Treaty of Fez, Morocco is a French protectorate. French administrators rule through local pashas and caids. This system was founded on Moslem feudal tradition by France's famous Marshal Louis Lyautey. It works, but it makes no provision for ultimate Arab self-government...
...administrative or military power. A French official stands beside him at all meetings with foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became a semi-invalid from an intestinal ailment, took to reading English constitutional history and books about the past glories of Morocco...
...customers had heard Baker's French, Italian and Spanish specialties before, but when she delivered them in her big soprano with a shake of satiny shoulders and a dip of swiveled hips, the exotics were as easy to take as Tennessee Waltz. In one number, dressed as an Arab street hawker in mountainous fez and awning-striped poncho, she passed out presents of flowers and haberdashery, shook hands, hugged small fry, shared a bottle of champagne with front-row customers, all as though she were an old friend just back from a short trip abroad...