Word: moroccans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French officers in Morocco did not hesitate to say that the recall of General Freydenberg was entirely political. The Ait Yacoub affair was causing uncomfortable debates in the Chamber of Deputies. Socialist and Communist deputies wanted to know the cause of this latest Moroccan outbreak. There were stories of Moorish villages bombed by aviators, Moorish women and children killed. The Poincare government, attacked, recalled Freydenberg, whose brusque methods had been if anything too effective...
While airplanes strafed the Moroccan tribesmen with bombs and machine guns, the Foreign Legion's district commander, dashing General Freydenberg, went forward with the relief column himself...
...rise above the rank of Captain in the Foreign Legion. But it is also true that one need not explain all one's antecedents to the Legion. Anything but French in appearance, red-thatched Freydenberg nevertheless had such Gallic dash that he became Major, Colonel, and after the Moroccan campaign of 1926 against Abd-El-Krim, General of Brigade...
...First Moroccan Crisis and the Triple Entente, 1905-7" Professor Langer, Harvard...
...First Moroccan Crisis and the Triple Entente, 1905-7" Professor Langer, Harvard...