Word: sidi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sultan & Tactics. At the numerous palaces of His Sherifian Majesty the Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed, Commander of the Faithful, last week a most remarkable independence was manifest. Was the Empire of Morocco, united in cherished friendship with the Kingdom of Italy, to apply sanctions merely because France was applying them and because the Sultan can do nothing without the countersignature of the French Resident General? The answer seemed to be a ringing Moroccan, "No, 1,000 times...
Little Black Schaefer is a famed Ger man agent and gunrunner who speaks Arabic as well as Britain's Colonel Lawrence. He prefers to be known as Sidi Fra Achmed Schaefer Arksis, has been a thorn in French sides since...
...Morocco then was an independent country whose neutrality was guaranteed by the Treaty of Algeciras (1906). France and Germany were both developing vast commercial interests there. As last week, Germans were accused of secret gunrunning to Moroccan tribesmen when France marched in and occupied Fez. As last week, Sidi Fra Achmed Schaefer Arksis was supposed to be involved. Only 100 mi. from Ifni, where the former warship Delphin was theoretically bound last week, is the harbor of Agadir. There in 1911 anchored the German warship Panther "to protect German interests." For many days war was very close...
...come. He chose the harder job of forcing a straightforward surrender. In their strongholds, the leaders kept the Berbers at a pitch by preaching "Death before surrender." The French began a tedious, hazardous prowling up the peaks, picking off snipers. In one desperate skirmish they killed the Berber Generalissimo Sidi Ben Ahmed. Some of his rattled followers climbed to a stronghold on the mighty Tizier Ouzine peak. French native troops dragged up deadly 75-mm. guns. Last week the 755 spoke systematically, blew peak and stronghold to ruins. Infantry columns occupied the splintered heights, captured the stunned irreconcilables, finished...
Premier Edouard Herriot of France and Prince Noulay El Hassan, 3, son & heir of Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed, strolled hand in hand on a Paris boulevard. The tiny Prince spied, coveted a toy horse and automobile in a store window. The Premier promptly bought them, delivered them in person to the Sultan's hotel...