rag-fed

Updated: July 2, 2026

Just as France would never have acquiesced in our establishing a protectorate in Morocco without something more than words, so the rag-fed British public, always capable of being goaded to madness by the newspapers, would have bitterly objected to French action, if overt, while powerless to prevent the insidious grasp from closing on Morocco by degrees.

Budgett Meakin - Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond