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Like a red cloak at a bullfight was the red morocco brief case which Chancellor Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning carried ostentatiously under his arm last week as he entered the Reichstag to put his new Cabinet (TIME, April 7) to the test-a vote of confidence...
Round about Fez, Morocco, where the fez was invented and is still worn, thousands of drums began to beat monotonously one night last week, thousands of pipes to squeal, and a million Morocco Negroes to cavort and celebrate the 240th anniversary of the mass marriage from which they all sprang...
From Gao the captive lines of men and maidens marched north to Marrakesh (Morocco City). Once inside the city, chains were knocked off, the Negro men were told to pick their own brides and mate with them forthwith. The great mass-mating lasted for weeks. Sultan Moulay Ismail obtained as an eventual result the most powerful army in North Africa. He benevolently gave each couple a strip of land to till and the choice of either a donkey or a camel...
...Tizza, Morocco, a train was delayed for two hours by a flock of locusts crossing the track...
...Amgoza Ibn Lo-Bagola has had a hard, queer time. A black man but a Jew, he is a native of the Ondo bush, hinterland of Dahomey, in western Africa. His people, according to legend, left Palestine after Roman Titus' sack of Jerusalem (A. D. 70), fled to Morocco, to Timbuktu and farther. There, swallowed up by African natives, they still remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit us to use only our teeth...