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...Riffian Foreign Wazir (Minister), Si Mohammed Azarkhan (TIME, May 10), were abruptly terminated last week when the Riffian Sultan, Mohammed Ben Abd-El-Krim, rejected a 48-hour Franco-Spanish ultimatum which demanded that he and his people acknowledge the sovereignty of the Franco-Spanish puppet Sultan of Morocco, Mulai Yusef, who resides...
Ceremonies following the installation of Mulai-el-Hassan as Caliph of Spanish Morocco (TIME, Nov. 16) continued last week at Tetuan. General Miguel Primo de Rivera, head of the Spanish Military Directorate conferred upon the new Caliph the Spanish Order of the Grand Collar of Carlos III; and the Grand Vizier read a speech on behalf of the 16-year-old Mulai-el-Hassan, which terminated with a prayer for the return of peace to Morocco...
...Morocco (known also as the She-reefian Empire) is nominally under the 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...
...Krim is of course not eligible for a royal title, that honor being confined according to Muhammadan law to direct descendants of the Prophet. It seems unlikely that he desires in any way to undermine the spiritual authority of Mulai Yusef who sits in the shade of the Shereefian Umbrella at Rabat or at his other capitals. But he undoubtedly does resent any interference with the internal affairs of the Riff country and, provided that is assured to him with adequate boundaries as a guarantee, he may well become as good a Shereef as the Empire can boast...
...Malvy, the plenipotentiary of the French Government who returned to Paris from Madrid, Abd-el-Krim is offered autonomy of the Riff area under the nominal sovereignty of Sultan Mulai Yusef, with an agreement to demark the frontiers in such wise as will guarantee the "province" full economic and political security...