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...snowy morning last week, squads of workers swept the apron of Paris' Orly Field. They swept to such purpose that when his Super-Constellation taxied up that afternoon, His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco could step out in white pointed slippers on dry ground. Nothing was too good for Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, the pro-Nationalist monarch who, a prisoner of the French in Madagascar exile seven months ago, now returned in triumph to open negotiations for Moroccan independence. Welcomed at the airport by Premier Guy Mollet and a platoon of ministers, the Sultan was borne off with...
With trouble bursting all over Africa, the French are eager to sign Ben Youssef and his Nationalist advisers to a moderate settlement in Morocco. It may take some time and some cosseting, but they have hopes. The Moroccans want a declaration of independence right away, with recognition of their right to raise an army, appoint ambassadors, run their economy. Though willing to go along, the French balk at tossing over their 1912 protectorate treaty without something else to replace it first. They want settlers' rights spelled out, and "interdependence" affirmed through some kind of North African Federation...
...Morocco, "Black Crescent" terrorists went into action after a three-month lull, tossing bombs that injured 18 in Rabat, Marrakech and Casablanca...
...whom he had appointed Minister for Algeria (TIME, Feb. 13). Catroux' appointment had been a political blunder in the first place. To Algerian French, Catroux was "the liquidator'' of France's presence in Syria and Lebanon, the man who had presided over the return of Morocco's Sultan ben Youssef from exile -and they had reacted fiercely and predictably. The blunder was compounded by Mollet's hurried abandonment of Catroux in the face of mob threats...
With the lessons of Morocco and Algeria before them, the French are gradually becoming aware that 97,000 white men cannot indefinitely rule Black Africa's 25 million natives in the old way. And they have had warning. Last May Day, Communist-led nationalists touched off weeks-long rioting in the Cameroons; their exiled leader Um Nhobe is already claiming the title of "The Cameroonian Ho Chi Minh...