Word: sarrail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, 72, of Paris, Wartime hero, onetime Commander in Chief of France's Oriental Army, onetime High Commissioner in Syria; in Paris, three days after the death of his superior officer, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant...
...most significant fact: on New Year's Day, 1915, His Royal & Imperial Highness, Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany and of Prussia, sent a German captain and buglers, bearing a flag of truce, across "no man's land" to the headquarters of French General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail...
While the fanatically brave, nomadic Druses of Syria were waging guerrilla rebellion against the French (1922-27) it was several times stated by correspondents that the French commanders from General Maurice Sarrail down were wantonly cruel in suppressing the rebellion, and, in some cases, incompetent. Naturally the French Government could take only one attitude toward such charges at the time, flat denial; but last week War Minister Paul Painleve said before the Senate Military Committee in answer to a question: "I cannot deny that the War Ministry holds General Michaud sufficiently responsible for the wiping out of the column under...
Meagre French-censored despatches carried no mention of the reaction produced upon the Druses by these terms. The Druses have long feared and hated the French, and were especially bitter against M. de Jouvenel's predecessor, the ruthless General Sarrail...
...Jouvenel, while bestowing a decoration upon General Gamelin (who temporarily succeeded General Sarrail), took occasion to utter veiled conciliatory remarks and threats as follows...