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Formal peace negotiations began last week at Oujda, Morocco, between two Franco-Spanish plenipotentiaries (General Simon and Senor Olivan) and the Foreign Wazir (Minister), Si Mohammed Azarkhan, of the long embattled Riffian Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abd-El-Krim. (TIME, April 19 et ante...
...Wazir Azarkhan, bright-eyed, perpetually smiling, clad in loose flapping Riffian garments, arrived in a rattletrap motor sent into the Riff to fetch him by the French Government, and promptly showed himself a master at diplomatic higgling, an art known in native Riffi slang as "selling the carpet...
...these harsh terms Wazir Azarkhan replied with a burst of smiles, arguments, threats, shrieks, and stormy tears. He said that not even Abd-El-Krim can disarm the Riffi, since each cleaves to his rifle as to his wife. He said that Abd-El-Krim might consent to go into exile "after two or three years, when things have quieted down, but not now." He said that the hearts of loyal Riffi are so constructed that they could not possibly turn from Krim to "the French sultan." He spoke uninterruptedly for hours, "sold the carpet" until it could...
...Franco-Spanish "ultimatum" was despatched through the loquacious Wazir to Abd-El-Krim...
...Arabian Night" in three acts and ten scenes, Mr. Knoblauch's play gives us a day in the life of Hajj, the Beggar; from his post before the Mosque of the Carpenters in Bagdad, this scheming, yet somehow lovable, mendicant rises to be friend to Wazir Caliph, and drinks deep of the joys of life, and of its sorrows, too, and at the end of the twenty-four hours is found again on the steps of the Mosque, the old cry on his lips: "Alms, for the love of Allah...