Word: rabat
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Premier Painlevé, who later declared himself thrilled by the "wonderful air journey," left Paris for Toulouse by train. There he took a military airplane, was flown to Barcelona, from Barcelona to Alicante and Malaga, thence, skirting Tangier, by the sea route to Rabat en the Moroccan coast...
...Marechal Lyautey, since 1912 the French Resident-General in Morocco, is generally considered the most brilliant of France's colonial administrators. His diplomacy in extending French influence among the turbulent Rif tribesmen and at the Court of the Sultan at Rabat, as well as his military achievements in pacifying and extending the area under French control, stands in striking contrast to the British devolution of authority in Egypt and the Spanish military reverses in their own Moroccan...
...hours before Delcassé died, General Lyautey went under the surgeon's knife at Rabat, on the African shore of the Mediterranean. He may die. These two Frenchmen, one a politician and the other a Field Marshal, were chiefly responsible for the creation of France's colonial empire, a territory larger than the United States by 1,000,000 square miles...