Word: krim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty decided to play surgeon, cut open the stomach of a concubine ''to see what was inside." Soon afterward French doctors formally certified that His Majesty was mad and in 1905 he was banished to Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar. On Reunion today languishes famed Abd-el-Krim, onetime bandit-chieftain of Morocco, who displeased the French exceedingly by fighting them with vigor, castrating captured Legionnaires (TIME, Sept...
...Muktar and his followers were cut oft from their source of supplies, forced to skulk in the ravines near the coast. Their eventual capture was only a matter ot weeks. Muktar's capture was of particular interest to the French. Their chief Moroccan rebel, the great Abd-el-Krim who surrendered in 1926, was last seen growing enormously fat in polygamous exile on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The capture of Omar el Muktar means that the actual pacification of Libya is imminent. Italy has always protested that the southern boundary of Libya adjoining French...
...High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of Spanish forces in Morocco was Don Damaso Berenguer, and a disastrous bloody hash he made of it. Potent, resourceful Moroccan Sultan Abd-El-Krim repeatedly wiped out Spanish forces larger than his own, and in 1922 the High Commissioner resigned in dis grace, greatly weakening by his fall the prestige of his patron King Alfonso...
Vital, this statistic showed with finality that Soldier Primo de Rivera had failed to win the battle of Spanish post-War readjustment, though he did settle the Morocco question (by scotching Abd-El-Krim with the aid of France); did give Spain the longest period of internal peace under one Government she has enjoyed in the 20th Century; and he did put through zealously the more obvious kinds of "reforms," such as road building, which appealed to his soldier sense. Himself accustomed to military discipline since he joined the Army as a stripling of 14, he could never understand...