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When the French deposed Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef in 1953, the rulers of adjoining Spanish Morocco could not control their gloating satisfaction. Posing as champions of the Arab world, they declared the deposition "illegal," welcomed Moroccan nationalists from the French zone, closed their eyes to guerrilla raids on the French zone from hideouts in the Rif Mountains. Theoretically, both Moroccos are one country under the Sultan, and Spain has always resented that she holds her zone only as a sort of sublet from the French. If it were not for those nasty French, the Spanish implied...
France's sudden restoration of Ben Youssef caught the Spanish with their promises down. When the French pledged Morocco "independence within interdependence," Spanish spokesmen backtracked hastily, began to talk of the necessity of "going slow." Dictator Franco blurted that democracy in Morocco would be "disastrous," because "we [do] not wish for the Moroccans something which is repugnant to ourselves...
Last week the zone's disenchanted nationalists gave Spanish Morocco its first taste of terrorism in years: a bomb burst in a Tetuan cafe, another was hurled at a bus. Demonstrators shouting for "independence and unity" stormed through Arcila...
World War II: Discharged from air force; after fall of France, fled to Spain, en route to North Africa to join Free French, was imprisoned for six months. Ill in Morocco, he was nursed by black-haired Yvette Céva, Algiers-born daughter of a French colon, married her in 1943 (they now have four children). They moved to England, where Pierre trained with the R.A.F...
...Israelis still cannot speak, read or write Hebrew, and it will be a long time before a lad from Morocco living in the arid emptiness of the rocky Hebron foothills wins the same opportunity as the boy from Rehavia, Jerusalem's swank suburb. Last week, calling again on the army to help deal with the social problems of consolidating the new state, Ben-Gurion urged that the conscription period be increased by one year to 3½, the last year to be spent establishing new agricultural settlements in the Negev...