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President Mohammed. In Syria last week Free French General Georges Catroux declared that France's mandate was over, that Syria henceforth would be an independent republic. Named by the Free French as the new republic's first President was a 55-year-old jurist, Mohammed Tageddine el Hassani...
...Mohammed, as he picked Syria's first Cabinet, was a problem of another kind from that which beset Iran's Mohammed. No European powers were at the moment threatening his new republic, but there was plenty of dissatisfaction at home. For five years moonfaced, religious Mohammed el Hassani had haunted Paris, trying to be appointed Governor of Syria. His bowing and scraping to the French did not make him popular, particularly with Syria's ardent nationalists. Syrians last week looked for plenty of squalls as he tried to set up his Government...
...fighting Riffi in Morocco, to remember that North Africa is populated by four races ("white" Berbers, Arab conquerors, native Jews, Negroes) which include innumerable tribes and sects. Italy's troublesome Senussites are a rambunctious Arab sect founded by Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, who was born in Algeria with an urge to militant reform. He ordered his two sons to jump off a palm tree to decide which should succeed...
...Senussites are a Moslem sect founded in 1835 with the establishment of a monastery at Abu Kobeis near Mecca by the revered Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri. Ever since Italy captured Tripoli (now known as Italian Libya, divided into the districts of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica) from the Turks in 1911 the Senussites have stubbornly resisted Italian penetration of the interior. One by one other Senussi chieftains have been forced to surrender, but Omar el Muktar always held...
Between Egypt and Italian Tripoli, just north of the great Libyan Desert, lies the tiny oasis-city of Jarabub, an excessively important water supply station for the trans-Libyan caravans. There in 1855 the potent sheik, Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, established the stronghold of his fraternity or sect, the Senussites, who continue to possess tremendous influence in the region...