Abd el-Krim and the Republic in the MountainsMorocco / Spain · 1920–1926"Before half a million men could break him, a judge and a newspaper editor made an army, and an army made a republic."Abd el-Krim al-Khattabi knew Spanish colonial law better than most of the men who enforced it. He had been a cadi - a judge - and had edited an Arabic-language newspaper in Melilla.The lesson the elders kept: A mountain republic that held for five years against two empires and poison gas left no territory behind it. What it left was a syllabus - read in Hanoi, Algiers and Beijing.