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MOROCCO: Call Me King

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TIME

As long as republican France ruled Morocco. Paris discouraged the Sultan from calling himself King: it hardly seemed proper for a King to be accountable to a mere President. Last week independent Morocco informed the world that Morocco is henceforth a kingdom and that the proper title for addressing its wealthy ruler is “His Majesty Mohammed V, El Malik [King] of Morocco.”

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