Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moroccan soldiers on the Allied front during the War. Only in 1916-17, when he served as French Minister of War, did he cease temporarily to be an immediate personal power in Moroccan affairs. Last week, at 71, he retired as French Resident General in Morocco, left his command and its recent complications in the hands of Marshal Petain...
Having captured the Druse capital of Suedia (TIME, Oct. 5), General Gamelin, the French commander, proceeded to blast it into complete obliteration with every engine of scientific destruction at his command. Alleging that every house had been filled with snipers at the time of their entrance into the city, the French proceeded to dynamite countless ramshackle structures...
Stern Frenchmen opined that the Druses would heed permanently such a warning that they must not murder Christians, pillage caravans, or continue to ambush French regiments. The Druses replied by engaging the French in battle with what weapons they can command for three entire days. At the end of that the French forces evacuated Suedia after an occupation of 36 hours, "on account of lack of water," according to French communiques, and took up a position at Messei Frey...
...disapproval and proceed to the day's fighting like bad boys playing truant. Unreasonable obstinacy displayed by the Riffians in refusing to be intimidated by the comic opera Spanish army precipitates a political crisis in Madrid. A French officer, perhaps a distant relative of General Nicholas Herkimer, directs his command from a stretcher for eleven days after being shot through both hips. The underdogs in the fight are lean, brown men who live in the desert and make nothing of shooting French aviators out of the air like so many crows...
...High-B" Accustomed to imperfection, the world marvels when a paragon of physical attainment adds to his fame some demonstration of high mental capacity. "Brains and brawn," the newspapers call it, an old story but rare enough to command human interest in a lopsided world...