December 29, 2020, 06:50 PM
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Patton visits the Sultan of Morroco.
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"During the tea some screams were heard followed by two shots. The Sultan excused himself and walked out with great dignity and after a while returned. General Nogues asked him what happened. He said that one of the panthers in the museum had made a very beautiful leap of twenty feet and had gone through the hole and started to eat up one of the ladies of the harem, but some of the guards had shot it. The lady was only cut on the throat, and it made little differene, as she was not a wife, but a concubine. With this slight interruption tea went on."
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Patton's War As I Knew It pgs 14-5.
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