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...They will often be reminded, as an ideal to be followed, of the incident that happened in 1904, when an American named Perdicarris was kidnaped in Morocco by a bandit named Rasuli, with whom it was suspected that the Sultan of Morocco was friendly. President Roosevelt, instead of starting negotiations that would have lasted until the death of Perdicarris, sent a cruiser to Morocco and the same day a cable to the Sultan saying: 'I want Perdicarris alive or Rasuli dead. I sent a cruiser to Morocco today.' Perdicarris was released immediately.*The attention of the children will...
Less than 48 hours before Christian Pineau outlined his bold "Eurafrica" scheme to the U.N., the French National Assembly hastily supplied him with a timely token of France's good intentions in Africa. In a predawn ballot that suggested that the lessons of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria had finally penetrated the French consciousness, the Deputies voted to give a limited degree of self-rule to the island of Madagascar and twelve provinces of "Black Africa...
Minister Resident Robert Lacoste, charged with the job of demonstrating French control over the Arab population (which outnumbers the French by nearly nine to one), had his task complicated by French counterterrorists, known locally as Ultras, who are mostly poorly employed veterans of colonial wars in Morocco and Indo-China. They fear that Mollet's government plans to "abandon" Algeria...
Divided Loyalty. But black-bearded Addi soon fell foul of the government and the militant Istiqlal (Independence) Party, which wanted to bring Tafilalet in line with the rest of forward-moving Morocco. "The Istiqlal," said Addi, "is a menace to our Sultan," i.e., it menaced Addi. Most of the Tafilalet caids (the local tribal rulers) were Addi's sons or retainers, and the nationwide judiciary reform, which ruled that caids must be replaced by government-appointed judges, struck at the roots of tribal power. When the national government sent inspectors and emissaries, Addi jailed a few. He rejected...
Youssef's government the bloodless collapse of Addi was a triumph. To the people of Morocco it seemed that the new order was finally taming the wild men of the Atlas Mountains...