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...Krim, bearded, limping Riff chief who nearly drove the Spaniards out of Morocco in the '20s (before France's Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, put in charge of combined Spanish and French forces, went down and whipped him), finally got the answer he wanted to a letter he has been sending to Paris every year. He could now get off Reunion Island, a muggy spot in the Indian Ocean to which he had been exiled (with two favorite wives and many relatives) back in 1926. Abd el-Krim decided to move to the French Riviera...
...work for nothing took their places. The bank's business, he soon decided, was to control or ruin other businesses. After a few years he exchanged one hopelessness for another and took service in the army in Morocco, building a road into the hostile territory of Abd-el-Krim. From top officers down, the army was as sick with graft as many of its members were with malaria and syphilis...
...April of last year, tall, serious George Krim was a master sergeant. He had 26 years of service behind him, and the respect that officers give to oldtimers who know all the answers. Today George Krim is a lieutenant colonel...
After returning from France in 1919, George Krim, with a new set of sergeant's chevrons on his sleeve, became a regular soldier and a tankman. Over two decades he built up a quiet reputation as an engine expert, an intrepid tester of tanks. When the Armored Forces was organized in 1941, Sergeant Krim was one of the few men who knew much about a branch in which the money-shy U.S. Army had long been weak. He became an instructor. After many months somebody discovered that George Krim deserved more from the Army. Result: forthright promotion...
...TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), but his previous record was superb. A graduate of St. Cyr, French equivalent of West Point, he had served on Marshal Foch's staff in World War I, was twice cited for bravery. He served in 1926 under Marshal Petain against famed Rebel Abdel-Krim in French Morocco. He was for a while Chief of Staff under General Maxime Weygand, was Vice President of the Supreme War Council, a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor...