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...probabilities are that the Sheik was instructed to ask for a sum far in excess of $60,000, for the Berber tribes are shrewd and well know the value of their prisoners, two of whom are related to M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident General. The French, on the other hand, will never let it be known how much they pay for ransom, for their prestige is at stake, and prestige in Morocco is all important...
...horsemen looked at one another in awestruck silence; for it was certain that an outlaw band of hostile Morroccan tribesmen had kidnapped M. et Mme. Yvse Steeg, M. et Mme. Jean Maillet, nephew and stepson and their wives of Theodore Steeg, French Resident General of Morrocco, the highest official of the Republic in the Morrocco protectorate. The party had gone ahunting...
Quickly the news spread throughout the land-a land that had barely recovered from the shock of the ghastly murder of three members of the Arnaud family only three weeks before. A radio message carried the news to M. Theodore Steeg, returning from Marseilles to the Residency at Rabat. "Do the impossible to obtain the release of the four prisoners," wirelessed back the Resident General...
...September, 1920. See above). He "logically" succeeded Clemenceau upon the latter's resignation, as one of the outstanding politicians of the Right. During the two terms in question he showed great independence in picking able Ministers from outside his own party (Nationalist), weathered an attack by Theodore Steeg, now French Resident-General to Morocco, and increased so greatly in prestige that he was elected President of the Republic by a vote of 695 to 892 on the resignation of President Deschanel. (See above...
...Steeg shrugged: "Que voulez-vous? They could but they...