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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Operations amid the rain-soaked sloughs of Riffland (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) were featured recently by the surrender of 800 tribal families to the French, in the region of Ouezzan, northwest of Fez. French communiques stated that the power of Abd-el-Krim, dauntless Riffian leader, is rapidly waning, as the Semadjas and other powerful tribes are submitting to the French. In the New Republic, U. S. weekly review, Poet Witter Bynner* wrote as follows...
...religious section of your issue of Dec. 7, p. 20, announcement is made of the sale of the Temple Emanu-El, famous synagog of New York, for $7,500,000 to a "Polish Jew named Benjamin Winter, who came to the U. S. in 1905 to paint tenements...
...your further information, the new site for the Temple Emanu-El at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and 65th St. was sold, not by Vincent Astor as you reported, but by Benjamin Winter, who bought the famous Astor residence last spring. He also is the present owner of the historic W. K. Vanderbilt mansion at 52nd St. and Fifth Ave., described in your same issue...
Cables from Syria announced that the Jebel Druz Sultan, El Atrash, has resorted to the last extremity of resistance against the French by proclaiming a holy war. After issuing an order prohibiting the sowing of winter grain by men between 20 and 60 years of age, El Atrash called an assembly of the chiefs at which it was allegedly decided to excommunicate every Druse who should fail to devote himself to the long-standing struggle with the French (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante...
Travelers recalled that "Sultan" El Atrash dwells like a feudal lord in a tribal castle, "with walls more than a metre thick," which is perched upon a rocky crag of the Jebel Druz.** It has been alleged that he regards the whole Franco-Druse war as having sprung up because he killed a French officer "to avenge the arrest of a tribesman who was the Sultan's guest." Since that time (1921), El Atrash has employed against the French not only his temporal authority, but the influence of the religious cult which distinguishes his fellow tribesmen, a mixture...