Word: lyautey
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...discussions began at once: the first started at 7 p.m. of Jan. 14, lasted until 3 o'clock next morning. Between conferences, the President found time to visit American troops in the field, to place wreaths on the graves where American and French soldiers lay buried at Port Lyautey...
...North Africa and Resident General of Morocco, had crisply announced that all territory under him would continue to be held, his crack Moroccan armies continue to fight. When Edouard Daladier arrived at Casablanca to argue with him, General Noguès, who served under the late, great Marshal Lyautey in building France's African Empire, arrested M. Daladier, kept him aboard his steamer Massilia guarded by Senegalese troopers. Off Casablanca lay six French cruisers, 21 submarines, 20 trawlers and minesweepers, 60 tankers and other vessels; also the incomplete new battleship Jean Bart, towed down from Brest with only four...
Presently, in Casablanca, arrived the man whom great Lyautey designated in 1916 to succeed him as Governor of Morocco: General Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud. the white-whiskered "Lion of Champagne." who, wounded at Gallipoli, had his right arm amputated instead of nursed along, so that he could get back into action a month sooner. Whatever General Gouraud said to General Noguès, it had instant effect. Presently the latter, and also Governor General Georges Le Beau of Algeria, saluted the Pétain Government and announced "an end to hostilities" in North Africa...
...Marshal Lyautey...
Last week, however, the ancient, lumbering Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, recently rebuilt, taxied nearly two miles on the sea off Port Lyautey, Morocco, finally got into the air, remained there with its crew of six under veteran Pilot Henri Guillaumet until it had reached Maceio, Brazil, a nonstop seaplane flight 154 miles longer than the record of 3,281 miles, established by Lieut. Commander Knefler McGinnis between Cristobal Harbor, C. Z. and San Francisco Bay in October...