Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morocco. The war between the French and the Riff tribesmen (TIME, May 11 et seq.) was resumed after a lull of nearly two weeks. A tremendous Riffian drive on Fez was halted without serious losses by the French. Sultan Mulai Yusef, for whom the French exercise a protectorate in Morocco, visited the front and gave heart to his defending faithfuls. A blockade of Riff territory was begun by joint action of the French and Spanish...
...world forum at Geneva, the Conference for the Control of the International Trade in Arms, Ammunition and Implements of War, called by the League of Nations for last May (TIME, May 11 et seq.), came to the end of its labors. Amid the clinking of Vermouth glasses and the attendant sounds of mirth, it was evident that the assembled delegates of 45 nations were well pleased with the outcome of their long negotiations...
...been for the numerous discussions of the war between France and the Riffians (TIME, May 11 et seq.), it would have been impossible to imagine that there was a war in Morocco; for all that a few miserable, North African despatches had to say last week was confined to the vague fact that the Riffians attacked, were repulsed...
...Parliament ended, last week, when Count Poullet, on his second attempt, formed a Catholic-Liberal-Socialist Cabinet which was approved by caucus of the various parties and was therefore sure to be supported by a majority in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies (TIME, Apr. 20, 27; May 25 et...
...this leads to the intentions of the Powers. Will they, as was suggested, agree to hold immediately a conference for the purpose of righting all China's wrongs? Probably not. But, sooner or later, they will have to. Meantime, the god old maxim of divide et impera seems the better part of wisdom...