Word: lyautey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resident General Lyautey...
...administration of the Syrian mandate, charging that the defeat of French troops was solely due to his negligence and mismanagement. Sarrail's friends were quick to point out that the Catholics were actuated in their bitterness by purely sectarian motives; for they had nothing but praise for Marshal Lyautey in Morocco, although, so said these critics, he was far from blameless in causing the Moroccan...
...despises. He has defeated them so often that he now loses no sleep on their account. To the south, principally along the Wergha Valley, which is in French Morocco, are the French. That is a different problem; for in French Morocco is the French Resident General, Marshal Louis Lyautey...
...technically autocratic sway of Sultan Mulai Yusef. In the Spanish zone, where the Riff is situate, Abd-el-Krim is the most potent figure. In the French zone-by far the greater part of Morocco-the greatest man is not the Sultan, who is a mere shadow, but Marshal Lyautey. This soldier, who has won fame solely by his invaluable work in Morocco, is the embodiment...
French power there. He is more. He actually governs Morocco for the Sultan, and as the Sultan is in theory an absolute monarch, Marshal Lyautey is par excellence a beneficent despot. His word is law. Yet, he always takes care to treat the Sultan's subjects with great tact. He has infinite patience, but, driven to act, he moves with merciless rapidity. The Arabs, who almost always admire a brave and wise man, admire Marshal Lyautey; for he never fails to punish the culpable, no matter how difficult it may be, and he never fails to pay the utmost...