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Descendants of the Prophet are numerous in North Africa, but few of them have the prophetic sense so inherently well developed as Hadj Thami El Glaoui, the 80-year-old Pasha of Marrakech. Foreseeing a few years ago that a tough French line might prevail in Morocco, El Glaoui brokered the shady business of selling out Morocco's legitimate Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. But when nationalist sentiment rallied around Ben Youssef and forced Premier Edgar Faure into making bargains with Moslem nationalists, wily old El Glaoui had different insight. "Must I become your government's enemy...
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...
...fate of France's 21st government in nine years. In their absence, Premier Faure, to present returning Deputies with the sense of something being accomplished, pushed and prodded until at last he was able to announce that the long-promised throne council had been set up to govern Morocco...
...more than enough. After three days of bickering debate, the Deputies approved Faure's policy for Morocco by an emphatic 477 to 140. Significantly, it was not a vote of confidence in Faure himself, which he had not dared...
...Deputies had given their approval with ill grace, and for a reason they might better have recognized before they launched into the debate-no other course was possible. But the 7,500,000 natives of Morocco, for 43 years a French protectorate, had at last the National Assembly's promise of reforms leading to greater self-rule and, ultimately, to a transformation from colonial subservience to "independence within interdependence" with France...