Al Maghrib - July 5, 1937.

Marrakesh is in fact the only city in Morocco where the native p0pulation is ruled in a permanent climate of tension stimulated by the representatives of the public authority. This climate reminds of one of these dark periods during which the feudal power, in the full sense of the word, reigned as an absolute master, while the life of the individuals was not deserving a worthy cause.

Nowadays, Morocco is on the way of knowing a significant evolution which aims at clear and precise objectives. Its men of action do all what is in their power to remove away from us the old-fashioned image left by an obscure period of history and successfully preseved by the policy of repression.

This is why we address the present request to the responsibles of the High Authorities in this country with the hope that they will take into consideration the lessons gained by the experience of the past. We ask them to examine the causes of the incidents which multipled these last few days, repressing all the consciences and running up against all feelings. Such a situation, which benefits only to the traitors and intrigants of all kinds who pollute the atmosphere, must be cured as soon as possible.

The nation's interest to the service of which the public authority is supposed to yield, is threatened by grave dangers if such strange behaviors are to be maintained. The time has come for such behaviors to be covered with a thick veil and buried so that the population would erase this incident from its memory.

The natives of Marrakesh see their lives dressed in black at the only evocation of the miseries they endured. They represent the scenes of these middle-aged behaviors which, once revealed to the human conscience, show our country under its true face, and not as these writers who are remunarated to falsify the bitter reality, imagine it to be.

It is in the interest of the public authority to put an end to such at the very least abnormal benaviors, which it would be ashamed if they are broadcast among the civilized nations, and which we deplore that they can still appear at our time.

The native of this country is no longer in a position to grasp the problems in the way a handful of men without any scruples about the common interest wants him to abide by. He does not agree anymore being treated as an unconscious who merely nods its agreement and gives his unconditional support to any action emanating from the representatives of the local authorities. He is aware of the fact that those live in a world totally isolated from the process of evolution and requirements of the mordern times in which we live.

A person with a sense of direction cannot admit that any action from which one awaits good for the moroccan people provokes incidents which exasperate the spirits and cause disorders. We are persuaded that the public authority has no interest in tolerating that such a climate persists and deteriorates into bitter tension. We rather have the feeling that it prefers to reinforce the bonds which link the People with the Government on the basis of confidence and mutual respect.

We are convinced that its theorists take care of the urgent necessity to establish a climate of understanding and cooperation between the Government and the people. We formulate the hope that the Government would not miss this opportunity which invites to optimism and lets expect a political change which requires the implementation of the urgent grievances that were submitted to the High Authorities of our both countries. We wish that a policy of overture will be seen as a positive contribution of a Government fully conscious of its responsibilities and aware of the main objective of the moroccan nation, which is to save this country from drawning in a new era of darkness as was the fact during the elapsed time of some obscur historical periods.