Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only replica of which is in the British Museum, is entitled, in full, "The story of the most noble and worthy Kynge Arthur, the which was the fyrst of the worthyes chrysten, and also of his noble and valyaunt knyghtes of the rounde Tablo." A small folio, olive morocco in color, and with gilt edges, this book is beautifully illustrated in the first portion, with fancy wood-cuts...
More trivial things than torn theatre posters have caused serious riots in Tangier. Diagonally across the strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
Sirs: An excerpt from the staid Times Weekly Edition, London, dated from Tangier, June 28, (From Our Morocco Correspondent) and captioned A TANGIER IDYLL-Love and Pistols...
Three weeks ago in French Morocco, swaggering, red-headed Brigadier-General Freydenberg, battle scarred onetime monk, vivid division commander of the Foreign Legion, rushed with 8,000 men to the relief of the besieged garrison at Ait Yacoub, Jacob's Hummock (TIME, June 24). Ait Yacoub was relieved. General Freydenberg wired the French Ministry of War that he was preparing, in accordance with the old Foreign Legion custom, to wipe out the offending Moors...
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...