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...Morocco. Another sore spot on the fringe of Africa is the Spanish zone in Morocco. According to the latest news, the Spanish troops have evacuated the hinterland and are now in solid possession of the coast. Director Primo Rivera intends, it was said, to lay down an armed and economic blockade of the country with a view to forcing the rebels into submission and opening the way for a peaceful penetration at a later date...
...Egyptian "crisis" was the mere symptom of a widespread disorder. Self-determination, so loudly proclaimed from the Hall of Mirrors in 1919, now passes current, quite contrary to intent, in Egypt, in India, in Morocco, and in the Philippines. Even China demands that a people's right to wage civil war in its own way--in fair weather, with Sundays and holidays off--shall not be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude...
Those disillusioning persons who insist that war has become entirely a matter of high-powered guns, cannon fodder, and casualties will be thoroughly discomfited by the reports from Morocco. There the dashingly romantic absurdities of uncommercialized combat are being reacted; prisoners are ransomed with Spanish gold; fiery sheiks of the desert sweep across the lonely sands with Damascan blades flashing in the sunlight...
King Alfonso appointed Director Primo Rivera, Marquis d'Estella, High Commissioner of the Spanish Directorate in Morocco and Commander-in- Chief of the armies there. He remained head of the Military Directorate which rules from Madrid...
...question of the succession. Who was to be Calif of Islam? Ex-Sultan of Turkey, Mohammed VI, who was temporal and spiritual head of Mohammedanism, said he was Calif; but that did not settle it. The Agar Khan of Bombay, the Emir of Afghanistan, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco, King Fuad of Egypt all wanted to be Calif. The President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, said that the Turkish Parliament would in the future impersonate the Calif. Abdul-Medjid Effendi, last Turkish Calif, declared with his predecessor, Mohammed VI, that his deposition as Calif was illegal and sacrilegious. Then from...