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The North African Question and Its Relation to European Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

George Frederick Andrews
Affiliation:
Institut de Carthage

Extract

In 1905 the storm-center of European politics shifted definitely to Morocco, and from the Moroccan situation resulted a new alignment of the powers based primarily upon the political necessity of France.

To comprehend the North African situation and its relation to European politics we must understand that upon the future of Morocco depends the future of a French colonial empire approximately the size of Europe.

In his preface to the Voyages au Maroc of de Segonzac, Eugene Etienne, Député d'Oran, Vice-President de la Chambre des Députés, Président du Comité du Maroc, says, “Il est de toute évidence que de la solution qui sera donnée a la question Marocaine dépend l'avenir même de notre pays. Il ne s'agit pas ici d'un de ces territoires plus ou moins riches, plus ou moins désirables, au sujet desquels les transactions et les partages sont possibles. Les énormes sacrifices que nous avons faits en Algérie et en Tunisie peuvent se trouver annulés si la solution qui intervient n'est pas conforme a nos intérêts et à nos droits. Ces droits, a la fois historiques et vivants, nous les tenons de Bugeaud et de Lamoricière, de notre armee d'Afrique et de nos colons d'Algérie. Quelle puissance européenne pourrait en présenter de semblables?”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1909

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References

1 M. Moulieras, professor of Arabic at Oran, has reported the discovery of a tribe of Berbers, the Z'kara in the Djebel Z'kara, who are not Mohammedans. The Djebel Z'kara is about thirty kilometers from Oudjda.

2 The term Makhzen signifies the central government in a broad sense. It includes the whole ruling class.

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