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...proof: Your Oct. 12 issue, FOREIGN NEWS, Moroccan affairs...
Came "Wizard Caillaux," as the Painlevé Government steppd up to power, and attempted to work many miracles which have failed. His internal 4% gold loan which was to have absorbed the great weight of defense bonds and brought relief to the Treasury has not achieved adequate flotation. The Moroccan War and M. Caillaux's uncertain U. S. debt settlement have further contributed to send the franc tumbling down to 22 to the dollar, and have caused Caillaux himself to admit that the Bank of France can see its way clear to facing its present obligations without inflation...
Spanish operations against the Riffs became notably spectacular when several Spanish battalions made a dash in motor trucks southeastward from Ajdir, covered some 20 miles across the plain, and established themselves at Syan on the east Moroccan front. Thus they linked up with their allies the French forces, which have advanced into that region from Kifane, and apparently the Spanish thrust came as a complete surprise to both French and Riffians. If the move is consolidated into a strong series of military positions, it may well forestill the possibility of French forces attempting to operate in the so-called Spanish...
France's most successful colonial administrator put a period to his career. For the last 13 years Marshal Lyautey has been building up Morocco. He pacified the major portion of it, consolidated the French protectorate, made it pay its way, put tens of thousands of Moroccan soldiers on the Allied front during the War. Only in 1916-17, when he served as French Minister of War, did he cease temporarily to be an immediate personal power in Moroccan affairs. Last week, at 71, he retired as French Resident General in Morocco, left his command and its recent complications...
...friends of the retiring commander hold that the personality of Lyautey has set its stamp indelibly upon Moroccan minds and hearts. To them any future rapprochement between Frenchmen and Moroccans must redound directly to their idol's credit...