Word: lyautey
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...scholars devote their professional lives. It would be anomalous not to pay the same, serious attention to understanding a process so central to the purposes of the University. Rather than hesitate, therefore, we should take inspiration from the story President Kennedy used to tell about the French General Louis Lyautey who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. "In that case," Lyautey responded, "there is no time to lose. We must plant it this afternoon...
Another is a story of how Frances Marshal Lyautey, anxious to plant a tree, was told by his gardener that there was no hurry-it would not flower for 100 years. "In that case," said the marshal, "plant it this afternoon." Kennedy, concludes Sorensen, "believed in planting trees this afternoon...
...Parade. The big cities quickly went into opposition. Socialists, trade unions and students railed against unemployment, grinding poverty, and the government's inability to provide decent housing in place of the fetid bidonvilles (shanty towns) surrounding Rabat, Casablanca and Port Lyautey. Hassan was accused of using the army for strike breaking, of being pro-French...
...siege around Alhucemas was relieved, the airfield recaptured, the road to Tetuán reopened. On a visit to Tetuán last week, new Leftist Premier Abdallah Ibrahim borrowed a phrase from France's famed pacifier of Morocco. Marshal Lyautey: "The government had to show force to avoid using...
...BuPers-and to drop down from admiral's country to see an occasional shipboard movie. Title of one movie: The Desperate Hours. He presides over a flood of operational, intelligence and logistics reports that range from one end of his command at the Navy base at Port Lyautey, Morocco, to the other end in the Persian Gulf, where the Navy maintains a little-heralded and could-be-boosted force of one seaplane tender and two destroyers. He keeps up a drumfire of "sitreps"-situation reports-to Admiral Burke, a flow of erudite radio dispatches to Righthand Man Cat Brown...