Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most cogent comment that the current Independent can make on the capture of Abd-el-Krim and the impending collapse of the resistance of the Riffians to the French forces in Morocco is that Spain must have learned that great resources and abundant population are necessary to successful schemes for colonial empire. That is all true enough; the Riffian episode has been a trenchant comment on Spanish weakness; but if it had been only that it would not have been as much in the head-lines...
Hadj Ahmed-el-Mokri, son of the Sultan's Grand Wazir (Prime Minister), was stricken with typhus among the first and lay in a dying condition throughout the week. For any member of the potent Mokri family to be thus stricken would have caused a sensation throughout Morocco, but the general anxiety was made acute by the fact that Ahmed was the favorite nephew of famed and beloved "Mokri the Blind," for years the incorruptible and discerning examiner of all maidens put forward by their families or tribes as candidates for the Sultan's harem...
Former Sultan Mulai-Abd-el-Hafid (1908-12) first recognized the peculiar fitness of "Mokri the Blind" for this post after he himself had become wearied by the necessity of personally inspecting hundreds of quite unpresentable maidens, merely because custom decreed that the Sultan alone of men should actually look upon the women with whom he might elect to consort. When it was noised about that "Mokri the Blind" had gradually developed his sense of touch to a point where it was almost equally discriminative with the Sultan's practiced eye, the entire responsibility of making a preliminary choice among...
...when one reads that Ab-El-Krim has ended the French war in Morocco by a nonchalant sort of surrender, one feels that indeed it has been a French war. By far the larger proportion of troops engaged were French; most of the casualties were French; and the victory is French because the Arabs are tired of the game...
...Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak or the Aga Kahn; Italy, if Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...