Word: sultanism
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...most important part of the political accord, aside from an agreement not to conclude a separate peace, was the offer of peace terms to Abd-el-Krim, "Sultan" of the Riff State, which are to be presented to him at his capital, Ajdir, by Horacio Echevarrieta, millionaire shipowner who has several times negotiated with the Riff Chief on behalf of his Government. According...
...Malvy, the plenipotentiary of the French Government who returned to Paris from Madrid, Abd-el-Krim is offered autonomy of the Riff area under the nominal sovereignty of Sultan Mulai Yusef, with an agreement to demark the frontiers in such wise as will guarantee the "province" full economic and political security...
General Stanislas Naulin, the recently appointed director of military operations in Morocco (TIME, July 13), was to take up his new duties on July 18. He will be under Marshal Louis Lyautay who, apart from being French Resident General, is Minister of War to the Sultan...
...effort to counteract the stream of propaganda launched by Abd-el-Krim, supreme commander of the Riffs, who last week fell from a mule and broke a leg, Sultan Mulai Yusef ordered investigation of the tribes faithful to himself...
...Morocco. The war between the French and the Riff tribesmen (TIME, May 11 et seq.) was resumed after a lull of nearly two weeks. A tremendous Riffian drive on Fez was halted without serious losses by the French. Sultan Mulai Yusef, for whom the French exercise a protectorate in Morocco, visited the front and gave heart to his defending faithfuls. A blockade of Riff territory was begun by joint action of the French and Spanish...