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Continuing Dialogue. Under the 1912 Treaty of Fez, Morocco is a French protectorate. French administrators rule through local pashas and caids. This system was founded on Moslem feudal tradition by France's famous Marshal Louis Lyautey. It works, but it makes no provision for ultimate Arab self-government...
...million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became a semi-invalid from an intestinal ailment, took to reading English constitutional history and books about the past glories of Morocco...
Labonne's liberalism, approved in Paris, was not liked by the Morocco-born French colonials. In April 1947, Senegalese soldiers from French West Africa, provoked no one knows exactly how, ran amuck in the Medina. (Arab quarter) of Casablanca, killed 80 Arabs. The Sultan was shocked, announced that the time had come for Morocco to "acquire its full rights." The words hit Paris like a bomb. "Send 20 divisions or General Juin," a deputy shouted. Socialist Premier Ramadier, who did not have 20 divisions, sent General Juin to replace Labonne...
Algeria-born Alphonse Juin, among the first French generals to join the Allied forces in North Africa, was one of the Allies' ablest combat commanders (Tunisia and Italy) in World War II. Said he, as he landed at Casablanca in 1947: "Morocco has a right to be independent. That is normal. But independence must wait until Morocco is ready." His plan for readying Morocco: i) a school to train Moroccan administrators, 2)3 council including members of the Moroccan Chamber of Commerce to advise the French on budget matters, 3) a delegation from the viziers to sit with...
Last January a U.S. military mission under Brigadier General Pierpont Morgan Hamilton arrived in Morocco to build five U.S. air bases. The Istiqlal intensified its independence drive. In the government council, Moroccans stood up, read documented reports aimed to show "the policy of the protectorate in its statistics." Some of the figures: only 7% of Moroccan children go to school; only 9% of top administrators are Moroccans. Juin curtly dismissed the council. Said he: "When the general peace is menaced, the time is not ripe for interior agitation...