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We are not surprised to learn that Marshal Lyautey has

resigned his post as Resid ent-General in Morocco. He is seventy-one years old and in poor health, and his posi- tion cannot have been a comfortable one for some time past. The idea that after holding the full civil and military authority in the Protectorate he could give up the one to Marshal Main during the war and retain the other, or that he should wait in France until the end Of the war and then return to Morocco, was not likely to work well or to satisfy him. He has fully earned a rest, and we trust that the war will not undo the excellent civil work that he has done to the advantage of both France and Morocco:

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