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President Doumergue and French officials, numberless, bustled to welcome Mulai Yusef, Sultan of Morocco, Amir-el-Mumenin (Prince of True Believers). Soon that portly sovereign was installed in the magnificent residence of Baroness Roger, lent for his accommodation...
Divertissement. It is the duty of M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident-General in the French Protectorate of Morocco, to "advise" (command) the Sultan as to his every official act. Through this politic subterfuge, the despotism of Mulai Yusef, unrestricted by any law, civil or religious, is employed with great convenience by France. Last week General Steeg "advised" his puppet-Sultan, though informally, to observe the dancing of the so-called Charleston by Occidental females of fashion at the Chateau de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne...
Human slavery exists today in Abyssinia, Tibet, Afghanistan, the Hejaz, Morocco, Tripoli, the Libyan Desert, Rio de Oro, Liberia, China, Arabia, Egypt, the Sudan, Eritrea, French, British and Italian Somaliland, Angola and Mozambique, in most independent Mohammedan States, and in Nepal and the Philippines...
...balance of power, armaments and counter-armaments, diplomacy, national honor, and the press. He shows how these factors were at work since 1870 in Europe. He sketches the formation of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. He goes deeper into such specific causes for unrest as Morocco, the annexation of Bosnia, Tripoli, the Bagdad Railway, Persia, the Far East, and the Balkan wars...
...Steeg accordingly announced that, since Krim technically "rebelled" against the Sultan of Morocco at Fez instead of "attacking" France and Spain, the Sultan must decide his fate. As everyone knows, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco is a mere puppet of the French. His "decision," unannounced last week, was presumably being drawn up at Paris by officials well informed of M. Steeg's reputed agreements...