Sweeney Says

At a dinner tendered to members of the "Sheriffian Escadrille"*by the American Club in Paris, Colonel Charles Sweeney, Commander of the Escadrille, commented upon the activities of his airmen. "Flying in the Riff is hard, distasteful work and not adventure. . . . When the war started we knew . . . that Morocco was on top of an abscess ... a revolt of brown subject races against European civilization. ... So we went in. ...

"The Moroccan war is the most humanitarian war I have ever seen. The least harm possible is done...

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