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...Hassan Abd el Rahim, 42, burly, fat-padded Egyptian army lieutenant, who refreshed himself mid-Channel with five cups of tea and coffee, two cheese sandwiches, a pear and a pound of honey. No. 2 in the race almost to the end, he sprinted the last few hundred yards, clambered ashore the winner in the record-breaking time of 10 hours 53 minutes.† "Allah, Allah, a record!" he shouted...
...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...
Last week the New York Time's peripatetic C. L. Sulzberger had coffee with Abd el Krim in Cairo. The 68-year-old chieftain was still belligerent. He predicted that 25 million North Africans would rise up against the "imperialists." Although he is against Communists, Abd el Krim said he would accept Russian...
...spite of Abd el Krim's blusterings, a major North African revolt was unlikely. The voice from the past was mainly a reminder of happier days when the word "war" called up romanticized pictures of the French Foreign Legion, rather than nuclear horrors...
Deciding where duty lay might not be easy for Abd el-Krim. The Katoomba had carried from Reunion the coffined bones of El-Krim's mother, who died in 1938. He had promised that she would one day be buried in Morocco. But when the Riff leader walked ashore, the coffin had stayed aboard. This week Katoomba and coffin were on their way to France. It seemed likely that the angry French would hold the dead mother as a hostage for the too lively...