Moroccan Affairs

Operations amid the rain-soaked sloughs of Riffland (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) were featured recently by the surrender of 800 tribal families to the French, in the region of Ouezzan, northwest of Fez. French communiques stated that the power of Abd-el-Krim, dauntless Riffian leader, is rapidly waning, as the Semadjas and other powerful tribes are submitting to the French. In the New Republic, U. S. weekly review, Poet Witter Bynner* wrote as follows:

To AMERICAN FLYERS IN MOROCCO

I have wished you wounded, I have wished you dead, I have wished you blackened by a wind of flame, But let me wish for each of you instead That he may live to cringe at his own name.

* Author of Pins for Wings, Snickery Nick, A Book of Love, and numerous versifications of poems translated into English by Chinese scholars; noted Brooklyn-born playwright.