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...coming out of a cabinet meeting, tried to calm the excitement. Said he: "The French high command has got the situation in hand . . . There is absolutely no justification for any panic or for talk of catastrophe." The cabinet called on energetic General Alphonse Juin, French Resident General in Morocco, to look into the Indo-China mess. Juin's first act last week was a telephone call to Bao Dai, after which Bao. Dai announced he would fly to Saigon as soon as possible...
...Paris, President Vincent Aurlol stocked his pantry with almond milk and other dainties to welcome a visitor, thorny, willful Sidi Mohamed Ben Youssef, Sultan of Morocco. After a dervish whirl of partygoing, the Sultan doffed his white burnoose, slipped into hunting knickers for a shooting party at Marly-le-Roi where he bagged 76 pheasants, ten hares, two partridges...
...Nightclubs, I hate 'em," grumped Humphrey ("Bogey") Bogart, who hasn't been kicked out of one since last September, when his stuffed giant panda got into a tug-o'-war with a brunette in Manhattan's El Morocco (TIME, Oct. 10). "The trouble with them is that you see the same old tired faces, the same drunks and the same dames...
...relaxed years 1921-26, newspapers with not much else to worry about worried about the Riff war. Abd el Krim and his tribesmen kept a lot of Spanish and French soldiers and foreign adventurers busy in the hills of Morocco until he was finally subdued, and the world turned to more menacing matters...
Legrand, 56, does not seem the sort of man to drift about the desert on a camel. Dapper and urbane, he sports a neatly clipped little mustache and a lavender-scented breast-pocket handkerchief, confesses an abiding love for good Parisian food and old brandy. But he loves Morocco more and, except for annual business trips to Paris, plans to stay there. "There are two kinds of time," he explains, "European and African. In Europe you count time by the year; in Africa you count it by thousands of years. The land and the people of Morocco are primitive...