FRANCE AND MOROCCO.
Writing in the "Humanite" last month on the renewed conflicts with the natives in Morocco, M. Jaures bitterly derides the whole Moroccan enterprise, and predicts endless trouble in the future. "While," lie says, "diplomatists and financiers arc adopting Morocco to all national, ultra-na-tional, and international appetites, the Moroccans are defending with their rifles the last remnants of their independence. But this is only a prelude. Before our flag is planted jn a pacified country, before all the tribes submit, before their hearts are all broken and silenced at least two generations will pass. Skirmishes will follow one another, and fight will succeed fight, and we shall have the glory of being constantly-in a state of violence. We shall have to spend money, blood, and the honour of France in order to guard and to occupy Morocco. In all international complications Morocco will remain to r.,-, n menace, and will, together with Tunis, .absorb at least three army corps. And we shall lose the right to speak about right. We shall lose the right to address to the Moslem world words of justice and of human hope. The 'high politics' of our great men bar willed it so!"
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 12 April 1912, Page 4
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