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Three weeks ago in French Morocco, swaggering, red-headed Brigadier-General Freydenberg, battle scarred onetime monk, vivid division commander of the Foreign Legion, rushed with 8,000 men to the relief of the besieged garrison at Ait Yacoub, Jacob's Hummock (TIME, June 24). Ait Yacoub was relieved. General Freydenberg wired the French Ministry of War that he was preparing, in accordance with the old Foreign Legion custom, to wipe out the offending Moors...
...bought directly from London book-stores, and on the list there are a number of "press" books, exact replicas of world-famous editions. Except in a few cases where the contemporary cloth bindings are of such interest as to be worth preserving, all volumes are bound in calf or morocco. The seal and bookplate of the Hopkins Fund have been stamped in the cover of each book...
...mystery-and here is the explanation. While he was attached to the tank outfit, the French war in the Riff was at its height. One day the French military attaché appeared at the Foreign Office in London and announced that his government had heard that Lawrence was in Morocco helping the Riffians. According to the attaché he had been seen on the spot. The Under Secretary who received the Frenchman laughed heartily and replied that Lawrence was a private in the Tank Corps stationed in Sussex. The attaché was unconvinced until the Foreign Office sent for Lawrence...
...France, Russia and Germany are the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Chesapeake & Ohio. Like spheres of influence of the Great Powers are the territories of the Great Railroads. As the Great Powers had their colonies, so the Great Railroads have their controlled lines. Like Morocco to France, for instance, is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. (Big Four) to the New York Central. And as the Great Powers suspiciously eyed each other's excursions in remote Asia and Africa, so each Great Railroad arches its back when a rival seeks to acquire some...
That was all. But the Quai d'Orsay had in its despatch files Mr. Kellogg's consent to do as France wished in regard to Morocco. It was not literally an acknowledgment. But if France chooses to be subtle, as France usually chooses, the U. S. "open door" policy, for North Africa at least, is as good as dropped into the Seine...