Word: berbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long, hot years the Foreign Legion and native troops have shuffled over the sand waves and stony wastes of the Moroccan Desert in "the war that never ends." The French War Ministry has steadily issued dispatches calling it "a campaign of pacification," noting "resistance of rebellious tribesmen." Actually fierce, Berber horsemen have been fighting a costly war of thrust and ambush, much like the Indian wars of the western U. S. last century. The Berbers are a white race occasionally producing a blue-eyed blond. Unlike the Arabs who once conquered them, they are honest and straightforward. Their active, often...
...contrast to working conditions in America, the Berber women do all the heavy labor of grinding meal, churning milk, carrying wood, and making pots by hand, while the husbands content themselves with driving the goats to and from the pasture. "Bedouins of the Sahara," and "Medieval Moderns," which is an intriguing study of the charming simplicity of peasant life on the plains of Hungary, are two other splendid films of this period...