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With pipes and drums, 5,000 Berber tribesmen, camped below the palace in the Moroccan city of Rabat, greeted the appearance of a wizened old man in a white gown whom the French a year ago made Sultan of Morocco. Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa was nervous. The last two times he had shown his face in public, he had narrowly escaped assassination by fanatic nationalist supporters of his exiled predecessor, Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef...
...omen was favorable. But who could depend on it? Behind locked doors, many Moroccan nationalists celebrated the day in the name of exiled Ben Youssef. A more significant omen for Morocco's future took place in the city of Port Lyautey. There 8.000 to 10.000 resentful Arabs, led by single-minded nationalists, had gone on a rampage in the medina (native quarter) the week before. They killed seven Europeans, including a woman and her daughter, whose stomachs they slit open with knives. The women's bodies were dragged through the streets of the medina. The French last week...
Colonial Police State. Sultan Ben Youssef's crime had been to lend his royal support to the nationalist movement. His mortal enemy was cunning old El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakech and leader of Morocco's 3,000,000 Berbers, a mountain people who hate the Arabs. The French backed El Glaoui, and replaced Ben Youssef with a stooge loyal to both France and the Berbers: Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, who is aged, weak and unpopular...
Twice, Arab extremists have tried to assassinate Ben Arafa; he no longer stirs from his palace in Rabat. The French, in turn, have outlawed the moderate Istiqlal, jailed 5,000 of its members (whom they could catch more easily than the terrorists), and have come close to turning Morocco into a colonial police state. From these events came the violence that shook Morocco last week...
...Morocco's new wave of violence began one morning at 9:30. A crowd of Arabs gathered in the market place at Fez, bearing crudely painted portraits of the deposed Sultan and shouting: "Long live Ben Youssef!" When the police used tear gas, the Arabs showered them with stones. The police opened fire: five Moroccans fell dead and 25 were wounded...