Before he died of cancer last winter El Glaoui, the wily and tyrannical Pasha of Marrakech, had groveled before the new Morocco, represented by Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (TIME, Nov. 21), and had been forgiven. But a good many of the new Moroccans bitterly remembered the bloody clubs with which El Glaoui's police, protected by the French, had for years enforced an arbitrary justice in their city. They remembered the huge levies collected at gunpoint to swell his coffers. Feeling that the returned Sultan had let the old pasha off far too easily, they formed an underground organization...
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