Word: sidi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...14th of JulyFrance will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Fall of the Bastille. This year the French Government is expected to outdo past performances in parading the power & splendor of French armed might on the Champs Elysées in Paris. Attending the celebrations will be Sultan Sidi Mohammed of French-protected Morocco, and Emperor Bao Dai of Annam, in Indo-China. Native troops from the French Empire will march alongside crack French regiments. Also in line will be a detachment from British Guards Regiments which have gone to France more than once in the past few centuries...
...ridden Cartagena, the fleet's base, 600 miles across the Mediterranean. Met by the French cruiser Dupleix and a squadron of French destroyers, the ships were inspected for sanitation, then, their ammunition removed, allowed to pass through the channel into Bizerte Lake. They will be held at the Sidi Abdallah arsenal at Bizerte and their 4,000 men will be sent to concentration camps. The ships also carried 600 civilian refugees, mostly wives and children of the crew...
...Protector" Daladier was "honored" to be received in white-walled Bardo Palace by plump, thin-bearded, 76-year-old Sidi Ahmed II, Bey of Tunis, figurehead ruler of the protectorate. Slender Erik Labonne, French Resident General, the real ruler of Tunisia, stayed in the background. As M. Daladier crossed the imaginary boundary line of the Bey's palace grounds he forgot to observe a 500-year-old custom which requires all visitors, high or low to bow. An attaché quickly reminded the Premier, who halted, backed up, bowed...
...France from Sultan Sidi Mohammed, who has nominal authority over the natives of French Morocco, Spanish Morocco, now in the hands of Spanish Rightists, and Tangier, came the pledge: "No matter what happens, if the worst comes to pass I can assure you that the Sultan of Morocco and all his subjects will align themselves at the side of France...
...Sidi-bel-Abbes, Algeria...